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We are here with your pre-show before the action gets started
Of course, I've got some amazing representatives here from every single game being represented here at this amazing world in San Francisco
I'm Evan Hashimoto joined by with BGC Sierra Dong with the full new names and then F14CG Emily Borson
And then of course Caleb Peng who's gonna be doing all of my Unite stuff because he knows the game better than me
But we've got so much action going on here
I actually helped a lot of you send you know, I made that joke earlier, but we've got so much action that's happened over the past few days
I mean of course players and teams coming from all across the world and it's been so exciting to watch
But we're only lighting I guess half-ish through the entire tournament already we've seen so many upsets and some great wins
So I'm gonna go one by one and kind of ask you all first of all
What is your big takeaway so far now being partly through this event and seeing what's gonna come into the future?
So Sierra, what do you see?
I mean, first off for the Pokemon video game, the biggest takeaway from the get-go is this
is a really tough tournament.
We have had so many of our previous world champions get knocked out in face 1 of the
competition, which, I mean, you come to world, it is the best of the best.
Some people have to drop along the way, but I think we are really hyping up this repeat
champion.
We do have a couple of them still in the field, but it's looking tricky.
other one too with our current regulation and slash B. It's all been about this mega
Charizard, right? But we have seen that even though it's really at the top percentages,
it's not necessarily all of the top teams. We've gotten to see Mega Dragonite by Yuya,
which has been incredible, Justin Tang with his Mega Delphox and Mega Blast Toys, NK and
Heria Arcona with Mega Star Raptor, and Britechu, just showing that there is a lot of innovation
in different megas that really could rise to the top.
Yeah, of course, it's so exciting seeing force the new game and all the new formats and there's just so many things being changed
But Emily how about TCG? What's the take one?
Well, you can't talk about the Pokemon trading card game without talking about the big bad dragon pull DX
Which of course is here in a full force
But honestly not as much as people would expect at the world championship only sitting at 43.2 percent
a lot of players actually thought that this deck would actually be above 50% for this tournament.
But all the way at the top of our Swiss phase one is going to be Brent Tonneson from Australia
who is currently undefeated 8-0 with Dragapult crushing hammers.
So there's a couple of variants of Dragapult that can be played,
but it seems like Brent is actually really locked down just the most consistent list
and where you really just don't want to take risks here in the World Championship.
I don't want to take no risks or take every risk right because it's the chance here.
But of course with Pokemon Go, how's it feel?
Definitely. So a big takeaway here is our two Grand Finals, Auto Man and Vizvoi are still in the running
to make another Grand Finals of the year. They were top two for a reason.
And Vizvoi, reigning World Champion, speaking of VP World Champion, we never had a World Champion VP ever as well in our fifth year.
So it's not early on, but it really might happen this year.
It can be well apartment.
The finalist that finished second last year has gone on five straight championship Sundays
in international World's final five, which is absolutely insane stat line.
And he's looking to try to make it back to Grand Final to win that World Championship that he's been going for.
So that could be a super exciting one, especially if you get that rematch.
It had a rematch at NAIC that was super close.
close and I'm sure it's out in the back of both of the lines that they might
face off Canada in the 2-0 and they'd be the champions to start with.
Well that actually is a great segue into Unite because we've got a lot of players that are former champions,
world champions, but a lot of them have been eliminated.
You know they moved on to other teams, we've got some of our previous
regular world champions as well that's having a little bit of a tough time,
but the real takeaway here that nobody expected is people who have never been
the world champion, which is Europe, right? We've had Japanese champions,
we've had American champions, we've had a Latin champion most recently,
But Europe has qualified with one extra spot through like kind of a big qualifier at UIC.
And all four of their teams have made it to day number two, which I believe is the first time that's ever happened.
And they are looking extremely good.
So they've made it up like second place at Worlds and made it to the grand finals before, but they've never quite been there.
It's just been one of those regions. This might be their year.
So everybody's really looking towards Europe, but we still have basically every region presence in day number two.
So anything can really happen with Pokemon United.
It's very exciting, but of course, there have been some amazing moments that have happened already.
And I think we want to each kind of highlight one of them that's happened so far.
So, of course, for more video game, any big moment.
Oh, I highlighted.
Oh, okay, okay.
Where we had to highlight, too.
But starting off talking about the fact that we can have a repeat world champion,
I wanted to highlight for Shohi Kimura's match for 2023, Pokemon World Champion.
Looking back at this match, too, he was going up against our, okay, we got the, we got the cliff switch.
But we'll start with this one first.
So we're switching the points.
We're talking about the unique Pokemon.
We'll come back to show you in a second.
I wanted to highlight Kerry's team and Kerry as a player.
Because Kerry has been someone who has really stepped up
for this year.
He is for any regional champion.
And when we're looking at a couple of these unique megas,
he has to with the little strafter and the ride shoe.
But it was really this Hizumi and Arcanine
that stole the show.
This has been a Pokemon that hasn't necessarily picked up
on so many teams, but it really made so much impact.
But this is what I was talking about.
Shohei Kimura going up against a Japan national champion in Hiroshi Onishi.
And this was such a great match.
Shohei now sitting at 7-1 record.
We had very similar teams with Megachars are being one of the dominant teams going into this tournament.
And how Shohei piloted it was such a, we know that he's so skilled, but to see it again in such
confidence display was really like wow if this is just a preview of his matches
he's gonna go all the way it was incredible such a big stage to be able to
show something like that on and yeah now since of course Pokemon video game had
two clips now that means you're not gonna see your clips unfortunately they've
taken away from us. I'm sorry that's just how it goes. That's just how it goes now
we'll have one later but for the training card game of course it's a gigantic
tournament any moment that you wanted to kind of show this well there's plenty
right and I think for a lot of players that may be tuning into the Pokemon
trading card game for the first time they may not know this but we've had a
whole expansion set that has been released in between NAIC and the World
Championship but of course it is going to be Brett Thomason on the right
piloting that very straightforward very consistent Dragapult he even ran out of
to get Dragapult in the end and then Dragapult's best friend, Monkey Dory coming in with the
mind bend with that ability of Dread of Brain being able to move three damage counters over
and then taking the win from here. But honestly this is my favorite moment of yesterday,
Matej, who actually got top eight laugh at Worlds last year with Dragapult I believe,
is piloting Alakazam. Now the most popular stadium that we actually have in the trading
card game these days is Team Rocket's Watchtower. It shuts off just as far as how they actually
paired it with Dusk Noir. So it's definitely a very tricky way to make the deck, but he knows
exactly how to trip up the rest of the field. That's another two clips. I think you're actually
out of clips now. Yeah, yeah, they're actually, you know, they're going to be finished in a second.
They're just going to just take me off stage immediately. No, I love the fact too that when
we talk about all these games together, which is not, you know, we don't know how many opportunities
It just sounds so ridiculous to hear two Pokemon paired together that it's a class of you
You're like jackpaw and jackpaw's best friend monkey Dory like looking at that from other games perspective
It's like what that's wild. I don't even think they've actually played a training card game
You know crime around was good for a while. I want to play that but of course we get we get ignored go
I think they might have taken away your clip too because they're just there. You're so greedy
You know, we'll see if there's a clip or not. We don't have a good story in the game yet
We do have Dragonbolt, which someone actually tried to bring last year for World Championships and quite worked recently well.
But we are in our fifth year and I feel like the skill level for this game has gone to an all-time high.
It's going higher and higher as this is Emi Wido, one of our former World Champions against a two-time Tywin champion.
In their first matchup on the Winners Finals, Winner Ghost, Day Number 2 on the Winners side,
These are might even get knocked out tournament
But look how close this is down to the wire football players having like two or three point one left with red
HG bars only a fraction of percentages of health and you can see in the very end it comes down to the final second
simultaneous knockouts just really highlights the skill of a game too
That's a half seconds that they had to you know tie on that very moment
That's exactly what happened
But we've seen that in so many of our matches through and throughout, and these players, they're so tuned in to the game that they kind of are anticipating each other's anticipations, and that's kind of how Noah has been this year.
And so I say every world champion every year is just better and better than the previous.
It's so cool, especially with games like, of course, I love video game of PCG, but I feel like our game's a little bit newer, right, as far as things go competitively.
So it's really cool to see the players level up more and more as time is going on
And that's actually what my clip is which is if anybody out there is not familiar Pokemon Unite
I think this is such a great clip to kind of show how amazing the game is how strong the movement is
This is Haruto one of the best players in the world coming out of Japan
One of the best juke that we have ever seen they're gonna be on the Lucario and they're gonna be chased around
So you should be able to see them kind of in the top right there
They're keeping an entire team one before they managed to go escape into the Kyover pit. They're keeping the entire team
They mentioned help work backwards using bone rush right here
I'm huge to and they waste the entire time of
Root dignitas which was considered one of the best in the world looking to win this entire tournament
But they actually have eliminated on day number one in a big upset a part of it was because of this
But there are just too many good teams. So right this is over there. Yes. Yes, although it's such an amazing juice
This is that's gonna be an amazing clip for all time.
So I think we checked out Pokemon Unite.
That's kind of the move that you can expect from it.
So I mean, amazing moments already from all of these games.
It's been such an amazing half of the event so far.
I guess maybe one third if we're considering Sunday as well.
And of course, there's so many amazing things out here
in this actual venue.
I cannot believe how huge it is.
There's so many things to do.
I feel like I've, I don't know,
about like 10% of it.
I feel like you were-
Yeah, I tried to go for a wander and I'm like,
All right, I'm off for a cup of round.
Surely I can see everything, right?
You start getting out to the convention floor,
and it just goes as far as the eye can see.
And there's still so much more.
I looked at a map, and I'm like,
this doesn't even stretch the surface.
It is just incredible how much love there is for Pokemon,
how much love has been poured into the event,
and so many things going on.
So hopefully we have the opportunity today,
but as we're going to show around, so I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you.
Honestly, to build on Sierra's point,
I really feel like there's something here for a Pokemon fan of any level.
Even if it's your first day, if you've been with the series for years,
you really can just find something for you.
I know there's musical performances outside.
There's a whole outside stage Pokemon XP happening for the first time.
For me, my favorite thing that I've seen so far is that life size of
Venusaur blast twice in Charizard made out of Clego.
Oh, so cool.
Ridiculous. Yeah.
I'm trying to get a picture with that.
have not been able to yet.
Do you have a favorite thing real quick
before we move on to the next thing?
I mean, yeah, I don't think I have a similar to MLA.
Probably everyone else,
you maybe haven't had the full time to experience all of this.
From all my friends and competitors
have been on some events, even after most of it.
They're like, yeah, I didn't know what to expect
from Pokemon.
And he's side makes fights.
All of them, for everyone that said it's blue,
blown their expectations, right?
And it's just, if you're a fan of Pokemon,
love Pokemon is the perfect place for you.
If you're on the fence about Pokemon,
you'll probably fall in love with Mugman after this weekend so so many great
races come out to these world championships and no better way to
celebrate it on the end of the day. Oh absolutely but of course I want to make
sure that everybody at home doesn't feel bad as well so of course there are things
that every game is giving out for just for watching which unfortunately I've
been missing because I've been here so I actually haven't had the streams open but
we'll sort of talk about what our games are kind of giving away so let's start
with the Pokemon video games there if you have anything knowledgeable about
What's actually being distributed for?
We're giving away so much.
I don't know which order the graphics are going to apply,
but we're giving away a swag in game
if you want the World Championship shirt as well.
We got to make sure that your style is matching your Pokemon.
You have the opportunity to pick up the 2026 Worlds in Cinnabar.
In Cinnabar is everywhere now for VGC.
It's kind of taken over whether you love or hate in Cinnabar.
It has taken over.
It is here.
It is one of the strongest Pokemon opportunity
I need to grab that there.
And this is the shirt I was talking about.
Enjoy World's 26.
Again, enjoy World's 26.
Write it down, take a picture.
Don't ask a 10 million times into Twitch chat.
Enjoy World's 26 and you can get that hat and shirt.
All right, I need a pen.
Production, can you bring me a pen so I can write that code
down, please?
Or otherwise, I'll just ask and chat later.
No, I'm just kidding.
And of course, we have so many different things
for so many games.
I agree.
I was like, I don't know what's going to come up first.
trading card game, we'll see what they bring about.
Honestly, you talk about swag and champions,
you can also get your swag in the Pokemon Trading Card Game
live as well.
I personally love the jacket.
Looks like a half leather jacket, half letterman,
which is really sick.
But of course, players love to customize their deck boxes
as well, so you can find all of your World Swag right
on your screen.
But the longer you watch the Pokemon Trading Card Game,
the more things you actually get applauded.
So in order to get all of this swag that you see right here,
you have to actually watch for 60 minutes.
But if you only have time for 30 minutes today,
you can actually get six packs of Pitch Black.
So once again, that is our newest set
that we have in the Pokemon Trading Part Game.
I personally love watching a regional stream on the side
to make sure I'm always opening packs
either in person or online.
There's so much stuff here
that I genuinely cannot read that text from here.
I'm gonna be honest.
So this is a nice giveaway.
Pokemon go, let's see what you're giving away.
We've got so much stuff we've got to do this.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, I'll just quick highlight.
Yeah, Lee Charging, super exclusive resource
that you get after watching up to 60 minutes.
Also more importantly, you get the world champion
from Master of Fields for his Tinkertun that he used,
his stats on the Tinkertun,
and more importantly, he even gets an exclusive background
just on the Tinkertun.
Really cool to have.
And of course, we got the Pokemon Pikachu XP,
you see in the space outfit as well as the champion.
you're spawning in the game right now so if you get it you're opening the game. So open up the game,
play it, and you also get a fresh avatar shirt as well as you can do. And no big deal, but I might
have gotten the shiny because you were the space costume yesterday. But hey, it could be like me
if you just open up the game and play it. Everybody up here is breathing, dragging with the shiny,
he's getting multiple clips. We got so much good stuff. What does United got? I know, I know. Yeah,
United of course has some really actually amazing things depending on how young you watch for. You
you can include the logo sticker for the event or at 30 minutes you get to an exclusive license
of Pikachu which is very very cool and then you can actually get a license for the Pokemon from
the world champion team for RU last year what they won with if you do watch for 45 minutes so
some really nice stuff and of course just be sure to watch all of the streams for each of these
if you want to be able to get some awards at home and I mean just watch all your favorite players
play because we are getting so close now to starting day number two. I know it's been an amazing day
one so far and of course as a reminder everybody this is all leading up to a huge championship
Sunday in the chase center, the arena. I mean we got a little sneak peek of it. It is incredible.
It is going to be a show like I think no Pokemon fans have ever ever watched. So of course we've
got four amazing games. Be sure to watch all the broadcasts. We're gonna have a really tough time
today I think deciding who will be moving on towards that special championship Sunday. So thank you
from all of us we're going to be moving on very soon as we get sending it over to our start for
day number two here at the Pokemon World Championships 2026. We'll see you all playing soon.
Here we stand at the start of a new day.
Looking out on a new adventure
No one knows where the road will take us
Already said, cause now it's time to go
Maybe we can finally see
Who are meant to be
Let's just start the world where we don't see the only
Every child we draw us will be on
Every rise of a side to glory
Together you and I will touch the stars
Every bend, if you and I will overreact
Cause even if we lose our way
Yeah, you always say
Here we go
Here we go again
It's even better than my time
Here we go
Here we go again
There is life that I don't
Every day, every day, it's all a mess
Here we go, yeah
Look around, familiar faces
All of us on a path to the unknown
Stay in trouble, react, wait and see
See when we're working, victory, oh, and then
We'll do it all over again
Cause even if we win the day, we'll always stay
Here we go
Here we go again
Let everything flash back like that
Here we go again
Here we go!
Here we go again!
I don't know
Every flash that I watch out
I don't know
To be the one
To go out there
We go
We go again
Welcome to day two of the Pokemon World Championships and Pokemon XP.
Yeah, we are absolutely delighted you decided to spend your days in the bay enjoying oh
so sunny San Francisco, California.
What a day that we have in store.
I'm Gabby Durden, and after a strong start to yesterday,
I'm back to keep us on track towards Championship Sunday
and the culmination of all the fun surrounding Pokemon XP.
Have you seen the skate park?
You get a chance to?
Yeah, it's cool, right?
Okay, I'm gonna have to go check that out.
It's wild.
You know what else is wild?
The fact that we are going to know our finalists
across all of the divisions by the end of the day,
Some of which will be crowned world champions
when we take over even more of the city
by unleashing the power of Pokemon in the Chase Center.
Today is about our trainers.
Across Pokemon Champions, the trading card game,
Pokemon Go and Pokemon Unite,
our incredible competitors are ready to battle for glory.
And I'm curious, who are you cheering for?
Let's see, who did I write down in my notes yesterday?
Oh yeah, and Pokemon BGC trainers Yuya Wakasugi,
Justin Tang and Stefano Greffi,
they look like they have the best shot
at championship Sunday,
but we'll see how things shake out
once we get into top cut.
The Pokemon TCG competition has been unmistakably fierce,
but Brent Tonneson, Henry Chow, and Rune Herrmans,
they really hope to hold onto yesterday's momentum,
and I know a lot of people agree that they can,
and Pokemon go, I mean, not gonna lie.
I'm keeping my own Beals of Boy,
as well as Potomac and Emu Weedle
as they tap their way through the brackets.
And finally, for Pokemon Unite,
we've got Peru Unite, Reject, and Koumai
ready to put up a fight.
Am I right?
Who's gonna shine bright
in the Championship Sunday Arena?
Well, I'm stoked to find out, how about you?
How about you?
As we've mentioned,
The Pokemon World Championships are only half of the fun we have this weekend.
Pokemon XP is in full swing.
And whether you're tuning in from home or you're here with us in person, there is something
for everyone.
Later on, make sure you check out the Pokemon XP panels featuring Pokemon Go, LEGO, and
Jimmy Paul.
Those will be live on the Pokemon XP channel.
You don't want to miss it, so this would be the time to add that to your schedule.
And while I have your attention, can we take a moment to recognize all the fun we've got
to all of the people that make an event like this possible?
Join me in thanking the phenomenal staff, judges,
production crew, and everyone working behind the scenes
to bring the Pokemon World Championships
and Pokemon XP to life in San Francisco, California.
See, the Pokemon community truly is something special.
and it's because each and every one of you is part of it.
Okay, that's enough from me right now.
We have a day two of the Pokemon World Championships
to get started.
Let's get into it.
Casters, take it away.
and we have a number of
winning world champions are
previous world champions, I
say in the mix as well. I'm
tail paint. I'm Joe with two
of butters. How do you feel
this morning? I'm feeling
amazing. We started with
over a hundred percent of
the world championships
in the last couple of years.
We're kicking off day number
two with our top 32 players,
and we have a number of
I'm feeling amazing. We started with over 300 of the best Pokemon go trainers on the planet today
We have 32 but that by the end of the day only two will remain to advance to tomorrow
Championships Sunday in chase dinner. That's right. Yeah, and if it is your first time tuning into a Pokemon go broadcast
Let's take a look at the formats. He was all about
Let's dive into the format for Pokemon go at the 2026 Pokemon World Championships
The best trainers from around the globe are here to compete for their share of a two million
dollar prize pool and the coveted title of Pokemon Go World Champion.
The competition takes place over three days, battling in a double elimination bracket using
a great league format.
Only two trainers will remain to compete on Championship Sunday.
Matches are best of three until the end of the bracket.
Loser's Finals, Loser's Finals and Grand Finals are all played as a best of five series.
Each match follows the Bring 6 Pick 3 format, where trainers craft a team of six Pokemon
but only bring three into each game.
The trainers are bringing their all to the playtables this weekend and we will soon see
who will claim the trophy and title of Pokemon Go World Champion.
Let's get this tournament started.
Now we have 32 players, but as the day progresses, the prizes, it's what you want to keep your
eye on because not only of course the first place prize and becoming the world champion
is that 20,000, but if you get into that 13 through 16 range, you get the prize money
as well.
And then once you start getting into that 9 through 12 range or that 5 through 6 range,
the prizes just go up exponentially.
That's right.
course, beyond the prize team, there's a glory.
There's a coveted title of becoming the world champion,
especially on the 30th anniversary of Pokemon.
It doesn't get better than that.
And we have two players here in the top 32
that are looking for their second world champion title
as well.
We absolutely do.
And if you missed day number one,
let's look at some of the best action.
We, of course, have these boys.
You mentioned it.
He is our reigning world champion in Pokemon Go.
And he was looking like it in day number one,
making quick work of the competition.
He is very familiar with that team composition advantage
and he executed all day number one.
I believe he only dropped one single game.
Didn't drop a single match though against his opponent.
He was looking locked in.
It's rare that a previous world champion
makes it this far again in the very following year
because we're only in the fifth year, right?
It's not a knock on the previous world champions
but Bealsboy has always shined on the biggest stages.
And of course, we get bigger stage,
we got Pato Man, who speaking of not dropping any series,
he didn't drop a single game.
Our finalist from last year, second place,
and arguably maybe even the best player in the world,
five straight championship Sundays,
all spanning throughout the past year and a half,
and looking to make another grand finals here
in San Francisco, as you can see,
dropping it throughout,
straight off the bat against Caspian Pike.
He has returned to the big stage,
And speaking of big names, we also have rising stars.
This is H. Sheara.
One of our fellow colleagues as well, a competitor,
but also fantastic.
It came first ever world championship for her.
And she has started out day number one,
completely undefeated, no games lost at all,
no match loss in the most incredible thing here,
butters, and she almost even qualified in worlds.
She was the final player to qualify for North America
in that final spot.
One last championship point throughout the entire year,
and she wouldn't have made it,
But that just goes to show that anyone could truly win it
when they make it to the World stage.
Literally from the top to the very bottom
of the trainer's qualified,
B-Isaboy, the reigning world champion,
to the 75th trainer to get that qualification at H-Shiara,
both dominant in day number one.
But who are the players to watch here in day number two?
Of course, B-Isaboy, Padaman and H-Shiara,
they are the biggest names right now
because QBC, that rematch once again,
probably the prohibitive favorite to win it all here,
It's actually Potomac because he has continued that dominance into 2026 season.
Of course, Beezerboy did have an awesome 2026 season, but since becoming the
world champion, he has not gotten a title Potomac has an H0.
It's the underdog story.
It's the story of those trainers just coming in, just trying to get their ticket.
And now they have that opportunity to make a game for themselves, to reach
glory and she had that opportunity today.
That's right.
And let's take a look at some of our predictions as well and how it's
shaking up so far as we're heading into the second take.
I gotta say the Dondo's prediction
was pretty clean butters.
I know you and home size Henry had a prediction as well.
That bulky water type is a great neutralizing factor
for the very ever popular shadow cancel night tails.
Well, I wasn't positive which water type it would be.
I just wanted to represent the biggest water type possible
to represent that Pokemon that could counter
the shadow cancel night tails.
I think that is the most impactful Pokemon
in the meta right now, probably that or Tinkathon.
So having that water type, with the water type pressure,
like the waterfall in D'Andoso,
gives you an awesome opportunity to do well,
but might have to face the grass type
that lasts a second adjustment
from the world champion, bringing that jump up.
Yeah, jump up, great neutralizing factor
to those water types, especially because you have to go
for the larger energy outrace and do any meaningful damage.
And speaking of world champion,
feels the boy with that jump up.
If you're tuning in to broadcast live on the rebroadcast,
you're in the right place at the right time.
If you tune in for at least 60 minutes, you get all these rewards.
You get a lead TM, you get some Pokemon encounters, and more as well as feels avoidant.
The reigning world champ is Tingatun.
Not only is it his Tingatun that he used at world championships last year, but also he
has a special exclusive background.
You can't get it anywhere else, so if you're tuning right now, be sure to sink in, your
twist chops, get it, and if you have friends that aren't doing it, you don't mess it.
to tune into Tune as well, not only do they get the first toss, but the pod gets a free action as well.
No better time. Ticket Tone is even better than it was last year at the World Championships, where it was Fringe Meta.
Now it is hard, Meta is probably a top two Pokemon in all of Pokemon GO PVP.
You're going to want this Pokemon. Let's look at all the other titles.
Have awesome rewards for you as well. You can take advantage of this Pokemon XP in 2026 World Championships items.
items. You have jackets, you
got a hat, you got some packs
as well.
That's right. And we have
something for all the games,
not only just Pokemon Go and
TCG. We have twist traps for
the video game series. And
that's Pokemon Champions, the
newest game here on the block.
You can get the exclusive
merchandise, the World's
Shirt and Hat. If you just
enter this code, they get
screenshots, you know, and we
know a lot of our Pokemon
fans, they don't just like
one of the games. There's
many multiple games here too,
so be sure to tune into all
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broadcast if you can, or again,
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definitely not on the 30th as well. The 10 year anniversary of Pokemon Go the fifth year for
Pokemon Go in the official circuit. But to kick off day number two let's take a look at the users
of all the players that made it in this top 32. As we can see the users have shifted a bit right.
We had Tinkertown in that top three spot on day number one but Galarian Corsa has risen up to
that third spot. Manti making that fourth spot as well. You can see no stuff is really around in
in the top 12, making Mantine even safer in that.
Because Mantine, you know, you can at least hit back
against a Hussain Electro.
But against a Sombaz, it's just nowhere to go.
But in Polion, a great meta read, I think, for a lot of players,
maybe it wasn't very high usage day number one,
but it's crept up to that number six spot.
If you look at it across the meta,
it has play into pretty much everything.
Yeah, one of the risers for sure in day number two.
Of course, the Malamar and Don Dozzo as well.
We weren't expecting that to be eighth and ninth usage.
Malamar is the trickiest one for me,
because we saw a ton on stage.
We even see it from some of the top trainers.
I believe PvP, David and Boom, Boom, sorry,
that made their teams together.
They're actually great friends.
They both have the same birthday, too.
They have the same birthday, yeah.
They have the same team.
They have the same everything,
but they built that team together.
They also have the Malamar.
I think Bezaboy has the Malamar as well.
We're gonna see shortly on stage next,
this Pokemon that you didn't think
had an awesome spot in the meta has really risen.
And I haven't seen it been utilized
it's highest it's didn't yet but I can't wait to see how it performs in day two. It's a dark type
that has played into tinkitung which is the most crucial thing right because thivo yes a lot of
people like it as well but you're just completely walled off against that steel fairy typing but
malamore you can at least throw the neutral super power do some decent damage and you know you
can't really fair win down the malamore and a lot of your options with a non child malamore for
additional bulk but like you said our reigning world champion brought it as well so he's definitely
on to something I think a lot of our top 32 players are as well. But of course there's plenty of
book on even outside the matter that we've seen on day number one and speaking of one then it is
the have powed on the shadow have powed on actually going to be a hero morrow side and this is of
course feels the boy no need for second introductions here so well known in this circuit a fourth place
in his first ever worlds in his second world he wins it all in his third world he already made a
top 24 at a minimum absolute crazy consistency and Hiromaru is definitely going to be a huge
underdog in this matchup but like we said anyone can take it all and upsets can happen.
Hiromaru one of the trainers from the Japan region I believe one of eight here in day number two
to make that coveted top 32 so Japan is doing quite well here at Pokemon Go Worlds the face
the world champion. If he's able to win this series and move on Japan will be doing awesome.
Beezerboy obviously like you said you know him but let's talk about the team. Let's talk about the
picks. He said he made a last second adjustment the night before. We didn't get to find out the
exact Pokemon that was but I have a hunch that it was that jump buff because you were seeing so many
of these more waterfall users with the Dondozo also with the Milotic which I believe is on the
side of Potomac, so if they ever do have that coveted rematch, they could have that jump up versus melodic matchup, but let's see how it actually fares against the team of Hiromaru, because on his side, he also has a grass side, he has a Hisouin Electrode, one of the Pokemon that was on our caster prediction list.
really strong in this meta. If you can avoid the hard counter of that shadow
cantonight tails and once again, if you can avoid that counter on Beelzebois
team, that electrode is looking awesome from Hiromaru.
And even more importantly, it's really safe into everything, right? If you look at Beelzebois team,
there's nothing that resists electric and grass on the cement. There's not a lot of
Pokemon in the meta that resists both in general. And because of that, that is why
this electric grass type is so relevant. Even though it might not sweep entire teams,
You always have play you always have a place to put it that safety is what gives a lot of players flexibility
You just build around creatively with their team and play around the Masters creator
The alignment doesn't matter nearly as much and jealousy is on the side of here tomorrow
We saw Doombug use the jealousy as well
But it's actually get a hard and to be the voice team because you not only have the licky-licky
But you also have the Malamar that can pace quite quickly to the foul plays and you have a grass side in that jump up as well
So does that mean you have to lean more on your shadow hip out on because if you're going to try to play
Flexibly with that electrode you're going to want to protect yourself from that shadow can't deny tail
So I feel like here tomorrow is more forced in some hip out in play
So how does beautiful actually deal with that hip out on will that be the jump off the last second adjustment?
We'll be seeing that out here because otherwise it didn't help it about on kind of neutral against a lot of things
Of course, he doesn't love the man team though. That's right
Well, it does have coverage for it,
unlike Pikeside with Muff-Om Aqua Tail.
So yeah, Flexible, here we go.
Game number one, feels the bovers here tomorrow,
and it's going to be Malamore into the Shadowcancel Nightsails,
a pretty neutral matchup for both players.
And the Shadowcancel Nightsails obviously paces so quickly
with just four embers needed to get to that weather ball fire.
That's why it's so strong, and, of course,
you can get to that energy ball
after just five of those embers as well.
The pacing is quite quick.
Malamore, known for his pacing, actually makes a swap,
a huge catch to take this resisted damage into the Shadow Canto Ninetales and there
is no clear answer besides the Hibata on. Do we see the Hibata on? Yes, the Hibata was
on the battlefield. The battle comes in, but there was an energy leave for Beoseboy. He's
going straight for the base with the weather ball. Dust here tomorrow is cold. It's snow.
Going to shield him. It is a shadow battle, so the energy balls are a lot more. Even if
it didn't land, the bait didn't land. It's still neutral damage, so it's not the worst
But the speed to get to the weather ball is so fast
with the sand attack and Beas Boy is gonna throw up his own shield.
He does have energy banked up for later.
Let's see if he has a chance to get back to his timer.
He's gonna throw another wayball.
But now he can combo move.
I think he gets back to his timer.
And remember, he has that energy on the Malamark.
Does he swap out combo play?
Yes, we do see a swap.
We do see a combo play.
It's not gonna try to attack Friday.
But yes, it is.
This is gonna be the weather ball rock.
It's not same type of attack bonus,
but you don't want to let all this energy go to waste.
So Beas Boy does give up his last protect shield
protect shield of the battle. There are no protect shields remaining. Here comes the
Tinketon, but Beazemoy has switch locked. Yeah, maybe a slight top position for Beazemoy
because he didn't throw the move right away. And here tomorrow, that allowed him to get
to that, um, uh, weather ball rock and also bring in the Tinketon locking it into the
mouth. And wow, maybe this place around the raining world champ, so much energy is completely
gone, even though it wouldn't go near as far, but this Tinketon is so healthy. Beazemoy
still has a chance to come in with that nine tails.
He says so as a bit of energy residual.
He can't dare win this down.
Burn charge up as much as possible.
Ashley just wants to throw this right away
to get rid of this Tinkertun
so that he doesn't have to deal with it later.
Well, it's going to be a licky, licky versus the world.
An undercharge here, throwing the great.
It's super effective.
There is just one health left on that Tinkertun profile.
Take the down.
What an undercharge from the world champion
to get that extra rollout,
which he will need in this backline.
There are no protections remaining.
This Hibata is trying to reach
and now the shadow ball is available.
I don't know if this is going to knock out, it's going to get so close.
Caleb, they've got on as both, but he takes 20% more damage from the shadow, but he holds on.
It's not enough, and this allows you to get the herb power off.
This is absolutely huge, because this puts it in a KO range, maybe even for the weather ball from the Nineteen.
You see, here, Mal, just going straight away, where the Nineteen doesn't want to get licky-licky, any extra energy.
Oh, and he just throws the body sam.
He knows he doesn't get the shadow ball in time.
You might have a chance to swap out and maybe catch a move.
He gets swapped.
He's swapping.
He swaps.
He's doing go for it.
He doesn't go.
He's got the way to catch it.
The weather ball absolutely huge from the world champ.
But he's stressed out, though, because he might be able to get
to another weather ball.
Hiromaru does throw the great, but he is just two embers away.
He only needs two of them.
Kitty get there before the raw damage as he does it.
Hiromaru is able to take down the world champion
in this game number one.
Wow.
What a game from Hiromaru.
And honestly, played that game, I believe,
to perfection.
You know, the catch was unfortunate,
but still was able to come up around that.
Two separate catches, actually, right?
On the Ninjas, in two separate scenarios.
But the other boy, maybe a little slight overstep there.
With the combo play, right?
Didn't combo play right away into Ninjas.
Forced the shield, then locked into the team to the top of that
was a super power and a half over energy.
It didn't throw up before the bulldoze came out.
I really like that strategy to bounce in between the dynamic between Malomar and Shadow Kanto Nintales into this team composition.
I just believe, like you said, maybe he should have thrown the energy into the hip-hound on,
and plus he let his Shadow Kanto Nintales get a little too low,
because he's trying to bait out the Tinketon with that Malomar, right?
And then you want to try to reverse farm and get some momentum with your Shadow Kanto Nintales,
but at that point, that Shadow Kanto Nintales was almost out of the battlefield because it had very low health.
So how does he adjust in the game number two?
We know this is a position that Beasley Boy is extremely familiar with.
We saw in previous international competitions this season that he would often lose the first
game of the series and then go for a first sweep.
So yes, Beasley Boy did fumble a bit, but if anyone could pick himself back up, it's him.
Yeah, definitely. And what a matchup for here tomorrow, right?
I mean, you're going against the reigning world champion Beasley Boy.
Not only is the reigning world champion, but he's just always played on point out these big sages.
I believe I saw your Mark Tweed last night on X about how he's got to start the day off against
Heelzaboy, but he's got to be feeling really good after that first game.
Once you take a game off of Heelzaboy, you're thinking, you know what, maybe I could do it again.
But Heelzaboy's very comfortable in these situations down the game.
He's come back from the before. Definitely going to have to rethink some of that game.
And I'm sure he noticed, you know, maybe he could have done certain things better as well in the moment.
He referred to him as well too. He didn't know that he could have on the back,
So he didn't know that it would have been locked into such a hard counter matchup
But now that he knows it could be a possibility in my opinion
I actually did like the dynamic between Malamore and Kanto night tails
But the problem was the best Pokemon for Hiromaru was the shadow hip-out on in the licky-licky
Which was the backline Pokemon just didn't have enough play into it
So do you make a change to your backline Pokemon to have a little more play into the hip-out on as we do see the leads here
It's going to be the Malamore, the Shadow Kanto Nidale and the Jump Club, which could have some backline play.
The same situation, swapping into the Shadow Kanto Nidale. Do we try to see a counter swap? No, instead, the pacing is just so quick.
Newsboy's like, wow, I just already had a weather ball.
Yeah, but this is exactly what Newsboy wants, because he avoids the Ninetales onto his Jump Club and now comes in his own Ninetales.
I like this play too, because it's kind of like a weird, you know, like, licky-licky mirror.
Like, if you have more help than the other opposing mirror matchup, then you could typically win it, because you know, even if you're...
Well, actually, he's behind MTA,
so he's actually using MTA at this point.
Well, Caleb, he effectively does bait out the Kanto Ninetales,
which means Tinkaton is just so free in the backline for Hiromaru.
Because in the backline for Beezaboy, you have Malamarr, you have jump-up.
This Tinkaton is going to be looking awesome.
That was a smart play to try to bait out the Shadow Kanto Ninetales.
It's not the Beezaboy. Does he actually shield this?
Does he try to keep a little bit of health on the Shadow Kanto Ninetales
to do something against the Tinkaton? He needs to get something out of it.
And the top offer here, Marius, you can't really come into this Ninetales
not just without having to worry about an energy ball.
So it's actually not a bad person in the field sport.
And yes, the team does wall off the jump club.
And it's really good to Malomar,
but it's going to do so much by itself, right?
And both of them, it seems like it hit it hard enough.
Even with this, it's quite a bit,
oh, yes, they get the catch onto the team.
The pick up move.
This might be what the other boy wants.
If you can get to a weather ball,
this is absolutely huge.
Can you get there or not?
Because if everyone is resistant,
you know, instantly swap in jump up instead.
and you want to keep that Malamar around for maybe
when you get back to your switch timer.
Remember, there are all the protect shields left in play
for these trainers.
You probably want to use it here,
but if you get baited it'll be devastating.
No bait, it is the hammer.
He protects shields properly.
That will be your best protect shield of the battle,
but you might have to deal with a super effective
weather ball, rock as well.
But I think a hammer would do even more than that.
That's right.
And I think that's a good shield from Bealsboy.
It is the craziest bait to throw a triple-resistant bull
those non-stab added jump club and if that everyone were to get a shield that's
absolutely wild but Bealsboy making the right shield call decision to
shield in a row shielding both kick it down to him and this is where it gets
tricky for King of Dunn because again you're in a matchup where you wall off
all the charge acts but the other charges he's going for the gray here
does he try to make a swap in the canton nine tails no there's no movement
here comes the hip out on there's two protect shields remaining but you're
getting closer and closer in range of that weather ball rock.
Remember, these hit sand attacks are triple resisted
from the flying and grass type of the jump club.
So they're doing absolutely nothing, just one damage per turn.
Here comes the next energy ball, getting the last protection
of the battlefield out of play.
And this is huge reveals the boy.
He wants to put this into sewer power range
as soon as possible.
There's energy loaded on the panel.
So we're going to wait until Hiramal throws and moves first.
Has it backed the fact weather ball rock?
So let's see how much this first one does.
Is a second one enough?
And oh yeah, it definitely will be.
Let's see if he goes for it or not.
Do we see if it ever catches?
No, there's no more.
Just wanna let it go.
He knows that, you know what,
he wants to get his entry,
so he doesn't get a snipe.
We're trying to go for the combo play.
There's no opportunity though for the Tinkenton.
The world champion is on the ropes right now.
He needs to be able to get to this foul play
before the weather ball broke.
It actually throws on Charge Sack Friday
with the super power.
He's gonna do a lot of damage here,
but it's not gonna be enough to knock out the Hibadon.
Was it charge tech party?
It was charge tech priority.
Beezleboy is devastated.
He wanted to be able to try to make that swap.
He's already saved GGs because the sand attack
is gonna be able to knock out this Kanto Ninjas
with just a couple of sand attacks.
If Beezleboy goes down,
Hero Maru is advancing on the winter side of the bracket.
Wow, and what a top of mind here Maru had to upset,
but anything is possible here on the world stage.
And even champions can fall
as Beezleboy does move to the losing bracket.
He's not out of it yet, but his throat just got a lot harder,
and he has a lot more opponents now to face.
The shadow has pout on.
That's what makes preparing for this competition so difficult,
not only because of the strength of the trainers,
but the wide infield of available Pokemon
that are relevant, strong, and powerful to be possible,
to be put on your team of six in this competition.
It is so widespread that it's impossible
to cover your team for everything.
I think I talked about this yesterday.
I did an informal questionnaire to trainers asking them
when you are building your team how big a part of preparing for all of these wildcard picks is in your team building process
in the majority of people said you can't
Build your team to protect it against everything
You just have to try to do your best and unfortunately sometimes you reach these trainers with a shadow hip out on that's just a tough match up
and the world champion fumbles early on.
And what about Kessler here, Morris?
Well, catching that energy ball on the Ticket-Town.
I mean, if that was not caught on,
the game probably is over, right?
You get the weather ball off, you chip it down,
one more at the back, we'll do it.
Here, Marneke and Baden, they're going straight
Tickets-on-Hammer into the jump-up,
recognizing that his winged addition is indeed
the shadow he's powered on.
Won the huge shadow he's powered on
in the entire world stage,
but he made the right meta read for this one.
Yeah, and I actually thought that was a great backline adjustment.
He had the Malamar, he had the Shadow Kanto Nytales,
but in game number one, he had the Licky Licky,
which fell short into the might of the Hapauton,
but in game number two, he brought up the Jump Luff,
which is what's stronger to the Hapauton,
but the strategy from Hiro Maru
to bait out the Shadow Kanto Nytale
so the Tinkatons could be so free in the backline,
and it was either gonna be a Licky Licky or a Jump Luff.
Either way, that's really strong for the Tinkaton
in amazing strategy so far for the trainers
from Japan, remember they do have eight trainers here
out of our 32 and day number two at Pokemon Go Worlds.
Yeah, absolutely huge representation from Japan.
And something I'd love to see this year in general
is that all the APAC regions have increased
the amount of world's competitors.
And I think that's well deserved, right?
I mean, there's always been so much representation
from North America, Latin America, Europe,
and maybe even OCEAN proportionally speaking,
but a lot of our top players are in the APAC region
and having more world slots gives them the opportunity to shine.
And our past world champions were from APEG.
So obviously a lot of talent in that overall region.
And we're seeing here on this big stage.
Let's take a look at the winners bracket here for day number two.
Our first matchup just happened.
Beezerboy went down 0-2 to here tomorrow.
He advances into top eight already.
Up next, we are going to have Dunebug versus Kento.
We have Hadelman as well.
Some huge names last.
Boom, PDP, David, Marto, Gaudet, some underdogs like H-Zera,
and like you mentioned, a ton of those APAC trainers
and Amy Weedle, a former champion as well.
That's right.
I mean, the chance to have a repeat champion
is totally possible, but so many of our other players,
the other 30 players are looking for their own personal
first ever world championship title.
And I mean, that's crazy, right?
Just one win there, and that puts Hiromaru in the top eight.
top eight on the biggest stages, absolutely insane.
But getting to all against the world champion
will definitely get you there.
As you see, a loaded losers bracket as well.
Be sure to follow along on the challenge bracket
because we might not be able to show everyone these matchups.
So in case some of them do happen off the broadcast,
you can follow along on that.
You can see Bealsboy is awaiting the winner
of, I believe, Ice Kris and Sonal.
I think it's hard to see from here,
but one of our other Japanese players as well too.
So this boy has a long road to get back to that grand finals, but it is definitely possible. Yeah. And of course, you can make that run through the loser side of the bracket.
We have seen it before on the international stage. We've seen it on the world stage as well with Dancing Rob, our very first Pokemon Go World Champion in that Masters Division.
All right, we got Dunebug versus Kinto up next.
Dunebug, another trainer with that jealousy.
Probably one of the best trainers on the planet.
Of course, he is the most decorated trainer
in terms of regional championships,
in terms of regional medals,
probably even regional match victories.
But you said it yesterday,
he hasn't put his imprint yet on that world stage.
Yeah, I mean, he started this year, right?
First ever day to Topka at a world championship.
And you know, again, it's not really a dig at DOOMBUG.
It's just the hardest stage ever,
and he's always struggled in these moments.
But he did not look like he was struggling yesterday.
Day number one, he's looking to continue his path forward.
Meanwhile, another talented player from Japan is here,
sitting across the field from him,
running that shadow Kingdra,
which is so potent in the right matchups.
And if you look at DOOMBUG's team, it's pretty solid.
It's really safe. Even in the single-time,
you have the neutral, hard-hitting surf,
And you know, if you don't land a Gigaton Hammer, it's kind of awkward, right?
Both of us just isn't enough damage for Gigaton.
And having that Shadow Annihilate as well.
That was a Pokemon that I thought would have a chance to be incredibly strong in the meta,
just because Thievl was a dark type Pokemon that got introduced into the meta late in the stages of preparation.
I thought maybe that could scare off some of the astonished users like the Corsula,
but that wasn't the case. There is a lot of Corsula, there are a lot of Ghost types.
There's even Jealousy that you have to deal with with that Shadow Annihilate.
So we might not have the best matchup in this particular one because there are two fairies and a ghost type on Dubuque's team.
But Shadow and Nyle, if you're able to find a team without those ghost types, I think it is quite strong in this meta.
And a key thing to know for Kenta's Orinori's team is that that is a Bolt Switch Fortress.
That's not a Bug Bite one.
And typically, for the Shadow Fortress, it typically is Bug Bites.
But because it's Bolt Switch, it gives the Thiebel a lot more play for the side of Dubuque.
Meanwhile, it's a lot worse for the Jellison on the side of Dubuque.
So he has a little bit of flexibility.
It's a lot worse for the man team too, actually.
So the Shadow of Mortars, that's quite good
with that Bolt Switch into Dumbug.
Seemed better to Tinketon as well, Kato.
And still like, there's not a good matchup
with this Deathlike as the matter of how you put it.
And better into Fortress.
Actually, I really like the Bolt Switch Fortress
into this match for Dumbug.
But it does give him window opportunity
to bring the Thiebel maybe more or so than before.
I really like Feroe into this matchup as well,
because you just have neutral play across the board,
even when you're resisted with your wing attack,
fast attack pressure into a Pokemon like Tinketon.
You have that super effective drill run.
It's a Pokemon you often see in go battle league
because you can safe swap it
and it just has awesome coverage, really fast pacing
and has the potential to be extremely flexible.
And then day number two, flexibility is key.
You don't want to have all your hopes
be relying on alignment because if that happens,
you miss wrong, you could be out of the tournament.
As these trainers are locked in,
we got Doombug versus Kinto.
And we have Dark Tide versus Fairy Tide,
so that is not great for Doombug.
Let's see if he tries to instantly pivot.
There it is, into the shadow camp for Ninetales.
Kappa, here's the tricky part, right?
You get D-Buff and then swapped out,
but because of the pacing of the Ninetales,
Doombug goes straight away from the weather ball,
knowing that he's gonna get swapped
before the D-Buff comes through,
and Kappa's starting to already go on and let it go.
Does he swap?
No, he's going to go to Chilling Water first
before swapping, and I believe he's going to swap
to the Fiora after that,
making it a little bit tougher for Doombug,
because the Fiora has so much playing
to the entire team with Doombug's backline.
It's so awkward when you have five pacing
and you just get outpaced up by a swap
by a four pacing, but this shadow cantonite
still has that energy available.
You'll be throwing it to the Fero,
which I love that he's ramping up the energy
on this Fero, giving an opportunity
to try to have energy for the backline.
He can get the full farm down and look at that.
He is over a drill run or drill pet in and a half.
Here comes the people.
He's definitely gonna get double drill pet into this.
People is a pretty bulky Pokemon though.
Yeah, and there's a little free things a little bit for Doombug, but there is that bold switch
fortress in the back, so that's not going to be the time.
And being able to get boldly off is huge, because now Doombug not only does have switch advantage,
he also has a shield disadvantage, which is such a hard position to come back out of.
He does have some energy though on the people, want to leave with the Ice Wind, so has something
to throw at least into the fortress.
Let's see if he bakes the entry or not.
You know, going to throw it right away, feed some chip damage, maybe grab a shield off
the fortress if possible.
Well, let's take a turn. Are you going to let it go? Yes, go on and let it go.
Knows that the nitrous is out of picture, so there's no reason for you to even
spend it. Oh wait, he gets formed down though, he gets sucker punched down.
And now you can even reach an attack here. You can reach the night slash.
And this is going to be going into Fortress. And was that a bug bite?
No, it's Volt switch. Yeah.
Now Volt switch, Fortress, you mentioned it before.
And here is that Volt switch. There is almost always a bug bite Fortress.
But this scenario exactly is why you would want that Bolt Switch
being able to do super effective fast attack pressure,
protect shield on this surf.
You still have a chance here if you're kicked out.
This is tough for Doombug.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, Kethro's almost at two rock tunes at this point, too.
Goes for the next one before the next move is thrown.
And it's a very easy shield for him to throw up
because it was a Jelson that was not deep off yet,
but minimized as much damage as possible.
And now goes for additional Bolt Switch damage.
Doombuck going for the surf. Can he get the second one because this one surf is not enough?
He was at the shadow ball but decides to go for the surf anyway, but you need the double, like you said.
Yeah, and one more bold switcher to it. Oh, he triumphed it!
Transfer the energy, but I don't think he's able to get it off as the bolsters will proc the damage before getting the surf off and cancel Sauronari.
fantastically well played, just put a really strong grasp over Dunebug there.
Maybe a slight mischew, letting the Forges get completely farmed down from the default.
But outside of that though, because he was so far ahead, it didn't even matter.
Yeah, it didn't matter in the end, he was able to pull it off.
And an interesting point here is that Dunebug was knocked out by that bolt switch damage,
but if you were playing in the new system of Go Battle League this season,
He actually would have held on to be able to throw that charge attack.
So in future competitions, if we do move to that new system that we've been seeing go
battle league, you could be able to throw that attack to get that knockout.
But in this current system, the damage does register from the fast attack first.
That's right.
And, you know, that's a key point to know as these players are playing on that legacy system.
And because that's really what they make the game all year round, right?
As you see, if you might just didn't have a lot of place to go in that match, right?
Once he got deep up and you got completely packed down from the zero if you look at the rest side of the boat scene
What beats the fortress literally nothing, right?
You got people that's kind of neutral, but kentos ready seeing that people would leave
So you know that no matter what you either have forges a tinga ton a
Jelsen or Nancy in the back and a shield advantage of chatter for two boats which beats all of those book mod really well
played really good team reading from Kessler Sarenori.
Yeah, and it was perfect for Kento.
As soon as he saw that safe switch, Shadow Canto Nytales,
he's like, OK, good.
That means I can avoid this matchup on my Shadow Fortress.
I can save the shields for it in the back line.
And he did exactly that.
And he was able to close out that battle.
So it's going to be really hard to deal with that strategy,
especially if you bring two answers to Shadow Canto Nytales
and that Shadow Fortress.
Dunebug, once again, a trainer that we are very familiar with,
just like the Isaboi, is on the ropes here against a trainer
from the Japan region.
That's right.
Let's see if Dumbbuck and Dig keep
them find a way to find this crucial winning game
to the force that game number three.
But this is an uphill battle.
I mean, shadow portraits with Bolt switch.
I don't remember the last time I've seen one.
I don't remember the last time I've
seen a Bolt switch fortress to begin with.
But that's what makes it a subsequent meta read.
And Dumbbuck probably didn't expect
to see too much of it, so get him over prepared for it.
Yes, has nine tails, but that's about it.
As you can see, the fortress is in the back yet again.
And Kessitarnari, I think he's thinking,
I wouldn't switch against, I'm good, right?
Although, team draw is part of your main nine tails answer.
And outside of that, you've got the forges
to only kind of soft loose to that nine tails.
So let's see if he's going to pivot out here or stay in.
As the first nice, Sasha is going to come through.
And you're going to go straight for the spin here.
Actually, maybe letting a sucker punch through.
He didn't love that.
Trying to get the surf energy to get that protect shield.
And he does.
But the problem is, you're just so low health,
you have to pivot out.
And here comes the forges in the pivot.
And there is the jealousy.
That means he left his shadow came to the night tails for the backlight which
getting face up against that fortress. Yeah, a great read from doing bug as well.
Expecting that the fortress might be in fact, he knows he needs to save the
nine tails no matter what just on the chance that it is. Also on top of that
night, it's just so strong to wrestle a line of Tempest so on our outside of the
King draw. So now that you've seen the King draw, he knows he can avoid that
right with nine tails. Tempest so on our the point to try to preserve the
fortress much possible. Got to be thinking that there might be a nine
in the back could have gone on the optimized timing there and thrown the disarmed boys after one very win
But maybe just wants to charge with much engine boss
So knowing that you need the children water and j2 deal with the nine-tenths later
And actually doubles down uses both of the protect shields on this forges here
Now it's gonna try to go for the disarmed boys and go for the farm down if there's no potential
I don't think this is gonna be enough to knock out
But you might get a very wind down if doombug does stay in does he try to swap out to let not let that happen
Or does he get to the surf though the very wind out?
No, he actually fairly holds off the board and help remaining to give to that last parting surf
Which will get close to knocking out the forges try very close
Yeah, try to get everyone down unfortunate camps and you must know has a shield the question is can you hang out to get the second
Chilling water off with you bug actually doesn't shield it
That's actually pretty big for a tempest on R2 do some necessary chip damage into this swaps right over
Wait hold on this might be opening that
that Tentastore Nari needs because now you get some extra energy on the fortress to potentially
throw a move at the Nightshears later.
And this Nightslash is going to be coming through.
He has the chance to boost.
We know Doombug has been doing boost in past competitions.
Not this time.
You need to get that energy like you mentioned because there is a protection remaining, but
you still have to deal with this evil.
You have no protection remaining yourself.
And now suddenly this Nightslash is going to be coming through and almost knocking out
your fortress.
Yeah.
Absolutely brutal for Tentastore Nari.
Yeah, the boost to boost. I don't think it's even necessary at this point.
Doombug knows that he gives the Ember down, shield up the Kingdra for later,
and then take it out with a weather ball. And that's the answer.
Not even enough for the entry lead on Kingdra.
It's not going to be enough either as Doombug still has the final shield.
One out of the two moves. There's not enough time.
That's our Nari. Just going to not even charge out the bubble knowing that this game is over.
Gotta go back to the drawing board at Doombug. Finds a way to force a game number three.
And of course, you do need to throw that charge attack
because there's probably not a way they're going to ember down
double resistant into a shadow king draw there.
So the weather ball will seal it, even though it is doubled,
not very effective.
And we got a tight series on our hands
between Dunebug and Kintzo.
Dunebug, no stranger facing hard team compositions.
He's been in the circuit for so long,
has so much success with it as well.
And now he knows, right?
What a great read from him.
He's like, you know what?
This five fortunes back.
I need a safe, the ninth is for it.
more importantly, if he brings in Ninetales into the Forges,
he not only has to, you know,
it's kind of a weird matchup, right?
Especially with Chilling Waterboss,
how's the King's Rock can just finish off
the Ninetales right after.
The Dunebuck avoiding that very disastrous matchup
brings in the Jelsons, and that was the thing, right?
Wrapped low shields, and still in the serve
to put the Forges in just pretty much form down range.
And how about that?
He doubles down with the strategy, right?
He did the exact same thing.
He led the feeble.
He had the jealousy and cantonightels in the back.
A trainer like Dubon prepares for this opening matchup
of the day, especially on a stage like this.
He knows what his strategy is going to be
coming into the match.
And even though it's faltered in game number one
and he lost the lead, he just doubles down game number two.
I know this works.
He's probably had dozens, maybe even up to 30, 40
sprints just on this matchup.
He knows which Pokemon are going to be strong.
So he doubled down, now does Kento also try to bounce back
to his earlier strategy of trying to maybe catch
that evil lead off guard so that you can protect
that fortress from the Ninetales in the back?
The real question is, how does Kento
start an idea with this now?
Because, yes, the fortress is strong,
but he didn't really bring a lot of really strong answers
to Ninetales.
He brought kind of ABB weak to the Ninetales in the back,
right?
I think a better strategy for Kento
might be to bring the fortress in two strong answers
to the Nineteen because you know Nineteen's coming every game just like our
Doombug knows that the Fortress is coming every game so you have to bring
the table you have to bring the Nineteen the two won't want to have any remote
play into the Fortress to neutralize it just in case you don't catch the
perfect lead matchup. All right we got it this size. Game number three here's the
Fero into that Shadowcams of Nineteen the exact team of three for Doombug that
he has been running the entire series but it's in a different order he has that
people and jealousy in the back.
The feral is not that threatened from the
weather ball, but the shadow came to the
nineties is going to be threatened from a
super effective drill run.
And I think Dumbuck knows he needs to
maintain switchmanage if possible because
he knows that there's that lurking
shadow fortress in the back and one drill
on pretty much one shot KO the nineties
from this range where Dumbuck is going
to outpace his second move.
Let's see if there's going to be a catch
made or not. I mean it's kind of hard to
catch right? Kessar and Ari just doesn't
even bring a nineties answer. This is
there is no real nineties answer on his
team which is absolutely wild because you have the fortress in the back you still have to protect.
Yeah he doesn't have that king draw like he did in the previous matchup but he does have that
floor just at least that can do super effective chili water damage but looks like doombug smartly
knows that there is a fortress in the back. I want to keep the shadow kanto nineties around
it now that this is switch lock he can preserve the shadow kanto nineties by pivoting out of
this matchup right after the weather ball and he goes for it. I don't hate this play from Captain
Soranari for a few reasons mainly because with a shield remaining you have to reflect the charge
that's what the fortune take out. We need energy on it first and unfortunately Dumbud gets the
gorgeous right where he wants it to be. You have a gorgeous Indra Jeltson. Jeltson is so bulky that
you can take this damage no problem. Oh and Dumbud just overbarned a ton against Soranari.
Or suspend the shield and this is disastrous because now the gates are open for a weather ball
to land on the forges and watch I can only wait no throw the ball and do bug gets away with the
take on the board is that almost a hundred energy out the window for Kesar Nari. Tito two games in a
row getting a little greedy with that forges and it doesn't pay off here comes the cancel night
tails trying to get as much inwards damage out as possible but I swam into that weather ball
too much shaking its head that was a nice play from Tito but will it be enough to bounce back
in this battle. And Dunebaugh he's locked in so the sand two will take out the
nineties before get any additional damage off but you got an evil in the
back and evil it's not the most playable one doesn't hit the hardest but it
could definitely do some damage into the fortress still has the jealousy on top
of it so forcing the energy out but no just going oh try to go for a shout
off but gets the energy instead. Dunebaugh feeling pretty good about it as he is one
game away, joining that top eight at World Championships.
The highest finish he's ever had so far,
he's looking for more.
One more strike-up punch through the night session,
that'll do it.
They can't even get that boost once again,
just for fun.
Doombo done secure top eight.
Now he's in the higher level,
and he has pumped up about it as a miracle.
Bounces back to defeat Kento,
where in two straight games,
He had an opportunity with that floor just versus jealous in matchup where he could have made a better impact
But unfortunately just fell a little bit short in only that juncture of the game
I feel like otherwise he played an incredibly clean battle. He was only the floor just versus jealous in matchup
Yeah, definitely and I think the line comes this were a little bit tough right for Ken Sarnari because
Disrespecting the cancel nine kills is one thing right in this meta
But when you have a shadow fortress that's double weak to the fire damage of the shadow cancel that deals
It's even more risky and you know that you might get spring that shadow cancel nine kills
But maybe just didn't think the king could really put in the work does have as nearly as much focus
I'm gonna not suppose focus here. I'm up here. It doesn't have a lot of folk either
So it's a tough position
but I think that line call from catches are not you just put them in a tough position right off the bats and
And we saw to the greed here, trying to go for it,
but Dombug just full sense of serve.
And that was just pretty much the end of the game,
the moment this move was thrown.
And I think it goes to a little bit of just a mountain
of experience that Dombug has, right?
The most decorated trainer in championship series
in terms of regional titles and medals.
The fact is, he has played so many series.
And of course, Tinto was playing amazing,
but I feel like Dunebug was locked in, prepared,
ran the same team of three in all three battles.
Even though he lost game number one,
he never went away from his strategy.
He knew exactly what he was gonna do
in multiple iterations against Kento's team,
and it showed there this is a trainer
that is super talented, locked in,
has the experience and was able to persevere.
Yeah, and that was such a tough matchup for Dunebug, right?
But we've seen him overcome once before that,
And he just danced around it perfectly.
He had a more neutral lead in both the first,
the second and third game, and found his wing conditions.
Knew that, you know what?
I need to save that nine-tales for the Fortress if I can.
And that's exactly what he did.
Even with the beautiful catch from Kendall Sarnari,
Dunebaugh just put himself so far ahead at that point,
it didn't even matter.
It seemed like almost like we were in a best of five series
already, because it already seemed like, okay,
you know what's gonna be happening in the back line
for both these trainers.
How do they make those minor adjustments
throughout the battle, knowing there's a jealous
in the back, knowing there's a shadow fortress in the back,
how to make sure that you have the right Pokemon
to take advantage.
And Junebug was able to do that and look it up next.
I got distracted because I saw probably
the prohibitive favorite to win Pokemon Worlds.
Patomon is on the stage next.
That's right.
And he is looking to return to another Grand Finals
at International Atta Worlds.
Last year, he came up just short in the fifth
and final game of the bracket reset came down to the wire,
but did lose the feels a boy.
And that's been an absolute tear ever since,
trying to make it back to that championship Sunday.
And he has shown time and time again
that he is possibly the greatest Pokemon Go player
there is in this entire season.
And based on accomplishments alone,
you can say that's a pretty easy case to make
as he's looking for another high finish
at an international event.
He's going to get substance either one of our top players from North America
Um, the younger brother of night time classroom one of our deck most segregated players in North America as well
But butters, I gotta say this is actually a grudge match. Oh, it is. Yes. Yeah, so let me let me give you a quick recap
so they face off at um, any I see
2025 this was last season and uh substance either lost potamon one or two
Um, so that was like maybe not substance news breakout season this season was 2026
They face off again, EYC this year.
Well, you know how that went,
it's probably one of the whole things.
Potomac takes a 2-0 victory over Susten Zeter.
And then, the last time they face off was Crock in 20-26,
this after EYC.
And Susten Zeter actually came out on top.
So even though Potomac has taken, you know,
two out of the three victories against Susten Zeter,
the last time they face off,
Susten Zeter actually 2-0 over Potomac,
which is not something that most people in the world
can even say, right?
So that's already a good sign for Susten Zeter.
But as soon as you started saying international competitions, I knew who the answer was because
Mr. Day Number 3 is almost impossible to beat in Day Number 2.
Remember even in the World Championships last season, who won between Beezerboy and
Padamon in the winners' finals?
Padamon.
With that team composition disadvantage, he was able to defeat Beezerboy, I believe
3-1.
It was only with a night of preparation and rest that Beezaboy was able to utilize that team composition advantage in championship Sunday
So Padaman is day number
Mr. Day number three for a reason he is almost impossible to beat in this day number two
Especially as the rounds progress and you have less and less time to prepare against this trainer because he is in my opinion
The best trainer on the planet right now in Pokemon go definitely
And but, you know, we've seen upsets happen already just a couple minutes ago, right?
The other boy versus Haramaru and, you know, the other boy, if he's not the best in the world,
he's obviously in the top three, but anything can happen, especially on the big stage.
And this has been an absolute huge torment for Dustin Cedar, playing against the best of the best,
making it to day number two undefeated in the winner's side, and now facing off again
for the fourth time against Potomac.
We have two waterfall users on both sides.
Malamar's to Malamar. Yeah, Malamar's been a bit underwhelming. I'm not gonna lie. Whenever we see
it's been really strong in terms of usage, but whenever you see it on the battlefield,
it just comes up short. We saw Beelzeboi come up short with it two times. We saw yesterday in
the match at the Malamar coming up short. Yes, Malamar has done really well. It has placed itself
in tough usage. But when I've seen it on the battlefield, I feel like it's been carried every
single time. So we have another Malamar mirror. Can we have a Malamar moment in Pokemon worlds?
Well, I think here's a tricky part, right?
Both players have a shadow bug bite fortress,
which absolutely shreds the Malmars.
Malmars double reach to it.
More importantly, Potomac also has a shadow bar.
So, like, that's, you know, bug bite's a one-term move,
but it probably looks like it's doing more than that, right?
It's just every turn that goes by into Malmars.
You blink and your Malmars help bar is in the red.
Let's see if there's a way to take that risk or not.
Here we go, game number one, Potomac versus Cedar.
The start things off, it's going to be that you know Stuntfist with Zodandozo.
And this is exactly why you use a waterfall user as your water type.
To do that super effective damage into these ground types like the you know Stuntfist,
or into the fire type of that Shadow Cantal Nightdales,
it actually picks up the early protect shield into this Stuntfist.
It looks like Padamon is just going to play out this matchup,
does have that Shadow Malamar in the back, but he wants alignment.
He does not want to face that Shadow Fortress with the Bug Bite,
So he has to make sure he wins this matchup or baits out the fortress.
And Potomac has the back-to-back discharge over Vonsetbid.
Throws right before the next serve is available.
Sassanivir lets the first discharge go, might throw off this shield just to get the serve off.
No, let's it go! Can the Thick Rail do it?
No, it does go down to the double discharge.
Potomac wins, which means Potomac also has a lot of energy still to move.
But he does have that Corsula in the back to face that fortress.
And you're going to get a lot of chip damage off here.
Yes, you will get that farm down for Susun's Dealer.
It is going in Corsula.
But then that's when you bring in the Malamar to avoid that fortress in the back.
And it's just so hard.
This Stumpfist is bulky.
It's threatening even another two more charge attacks.
Going to throw the mud bomb.
Maybe he could have gone for double discharge,
but does that mean that he's also going to be able to get through
one more parting discharge before it gets knocked out?
I'd like to calm down from sussing here.
Very confident knowing the bulk of the force of love.
Knowing that even if there's a Malmour in the pack,
this much energy is going to threaten a KO on the Shadow Malmour.
Here's the thing, you throw both Nightshade,
maybe grab a shield, and then just try to snipe it
with the floodlights.
And Potomac's shield says the fortress
is about to come in in a quick second.
Let's see if he goes for it or not.
And no, this has to let it go.
Forrest might come in, he calls it.
He calls it.
But most of the side will swap.
And here comes Potomac's own force of love.
And down the shield is no problem for Corsair into this matchup.
Look how much these astonishers are doing.
Sustenance Eater is desperately reaching for that Rock Tomb,
which will drop the attack of this Corsair
and make the match up better for Sustenance Eater.
He's going to get to it as soon as possible.
There it is.
There's one protection remaining,
but Padamon can be patient.
He does not have to use it yet.
Yeah, but this is still a tough position for Padamon.
He is going to shield up the more likelihood of it being a Rock Tomb.
He wants to push them as much as possible.
This is so annoying because, yes,
have the Tiger Vance on the Corsair for the bug-bite spell chunk and more
importantly Susie there has a shield advantage and the next Rock Tomb is gonna
put the Corsair into the red. And the problem is there is health on the
Corsair for Susie and its Eater so as soon as Susie and its Eater wants to come in and
try to go for astonished damage he is gonna throw one more Rock Tomb, there's
one protection remaining and there's a back-to-back available for Padamon but
there's still a Prec-to-Tec Shield and the action uses it here on surprise. Here comes
the combo play swapping in, the last night's aid is banked, the Malibar comes in
to knock into a charge attack.
Padamon does have the nightshade that he can throw right now,
but he's going to have to be able to knock out the Fortress
before Fortress can get to a charge attack.
Sussan's Eater, he's not, and he thinks
he can get to one Sanctum before the Astonish damage
is going to take him out.
Can he do it?
It's going to be close, but the fight is enough.
As Sussan's Eater takes the first game off from Podermann.
Wow, well played from Sussan and Eater.
Podermann, I felt like knew exactly what he was doing.
He knew that Shadow Fortress was going to be in the back line.
He was going to save his course love for that back line and make sure that he won a lineman
But that alignment didn't do too much for him because of the strength of the opposing course law in the back
Malamar just didn't stand a chance once in Malamar
This is the most anti-malamar property I've ever heard of that quite some time
But I got to say one word that describes us in the in that first game patience
absolute patience lets the Dondo so go gets a shield gets hit with two discharge
doesn't save doesn't spend a shield comes in course but into the
surface gets hit by what two three mob bombs doesn't matter goes again for the
patience knowing that you depend on the engine because you lose the backline what
can stop the course with that much energy nothing absolutely nothing and on
top of that has the fortress or later there is no cancel nights are on the
So the fortress is actually very, very safe once you, you know, if you have a shield advantage, right?
Because the fortress is probably the best answer for you.
But even with the course on it, with that shield advantage, you're able to clean up.
Yeah, just because of the debuffs with that rock team, obviously, you have Santum as well.
It's a really strong Pokemon, a Pokemon that we thought would be even a little bit higher in the meta day number one.
Oftentimes, these trainers bring that waterfall user and protect it with the shadow fortress.
That is a core duo that we see on both of these trainers team.
On Potomac's side, he has the Milotic, and he has the Shadowforge.
On Sustenance's side, he has that Dontozo in the Shadowforge.
And Potomac, just as the other top names, is on the ropes as well.
He is down 0-1 to Sustenance, and this is a devastating lead.
He has to instantly pivot into the Stuntfish, but with no clear answer,
here comes the Shadowforge, it's a Sustenance eater.
But more importantly, there's also no clear answer
for substance either for that Goliath course.
I think Goliath course is very safe for both players
in this particular matchup, especially with the licky,
licky on the bench.
Espanamon is going to draw out the fortress,
but there's no Malmaw on his side either.
So it doesn't help him out as much as you would think.
And with the Budweb variance of the fortress,
it's actually quite good with a lot of the ground types.
And the Santoon is going to come through super effective
and drops the defense of this poor stuntman
who's trying to get to a double discharge
and can get the alignment here.
So, Sustenance Theater has a choice
to let one discharge through,
but Padamon is at the back, the back.
Does he try to go for the alignment,
or does he soft lose this matchup?
He has this opportunity to decide right here.
And I think Sustenance might just let this go.
No, Sustenance throw up the shield
as the very last second will have the chance
to go for the debuff for later.
So, debuffing, getting maybe even the rock team off
will be huge value.
Gandy, Reaching, goes for it, no!
Unfortunately, doesn't get it off.
And so, that's actually gonna be a huge win
Potomac as he now has the energy lead and the script that's been flipped right
It's like the first concept this time Potomac doesn't have the matchup need one
But has the shield to manage susneater has residual energy on the course of going to throw the first night shade
I think we're gonna see instant shield from Potomac. This is where you need to use your shields
It's gonna be super effective night shade here come to Dondozo though to be able to soak up all this energy
I like that from susneater get the shield do a little bit of chip damage then come in with the Dondozo and never shield it
Just try to rely on your Corsula in the back and rely on the bolt that is Dantoso, a Pokemon that we haven't seen too much in
Championship series, but as you can see it has high defense, high HP, is able to take these charge attacks and fast attacks, no problem
While pacing up to these harder hitting charge attacks.
I mean it indeed is a whale and it is pretty thick on the battlefield on top of it as you can see the water ball damage adding up too
and now Potomac throws up the final shield trying to get the back-to-back
nightshade before throwing just so that he can throw a party nightshade.
This is gonna put him in a top-top position. Has a final nightshade available.
Substance leader has this to make. Do you go for the shield or not? I don't think it's
probably worth it. Oh, it does. Go show the shield. Watch it try to maybe get some
additional damage from all buts. As I'm getting taken out, fly the back-to-back
nightshade. Now, substance leader again calling a position but this time around
The script is flipped a bit. It's Audemars now with the Shadow Fortress into the Corsula of Sustenir.
Going to get this Nightroch, right before the Nightshade reads that huge dentist debuff
will mitigate so much damage coming in from this next Nightshade.
And remember, there is a bit of health in the back on that Corsula.
And now that the attack has dropped, you can take one Astonish.
So that means Audemars can get off two Astonishes in the back, and he has the Sand Tomb right here.
It all comes down to this night shade for sustenance either can't substance either knock out with this night shade
It has been debunked. No, it's not enough charge. Zach. Right. You know actually the same to him comes out before the next night shade
And it's gonna be enough to tie up the series for Panama Wow
This is quite a clutch match and it is absolutely delivering here that start things off on the winners back to update number two
Back in four between these two players
fortress into Corsola and then Corsola into fortress.
I guess you'd rather be in the fortress before we're learning.
I guess so.
And it was actually a great line reach for Podomar, right?
Because you're thinking, okay, well,
what if he has a licky licky in the back,
then it's hard countered.
But the odds of Sussex Eater leading in Corsola
and having a licky licky in the back is so low
because there's that Shadow Malmour.
And you're just way too weak to reach that Shadow Malmour
if Podomar decides to go for it.
So Podomar goes through the gamble and says,
you know what, I'm gonna protect my Corsola.
I'm going to expect that he doesn't have the licky licky hard counter me and that is my win condition
And that's exactly what he found in the end game
Well finally the best case that I've heard for actually bringing a Malamar to the stage here is to break off that core
Which of course Licky Licky was number one in usage by a mile in day number two and the course
Sla is one of those late risers in the meta shift
Course Sla is on a lot of these top trainer teams as well
So if you do have that bench pressure or you could utilize that Pokemon to break up that core that is
a strong utility you can have on your team of six.
That's right, and this is going to be a tough one, right?
There's so much online.
Winning this puts you into top eight at world championships.
The biggest stage, the moment that all these players
have been fighting for and losing here
will pull you into the losers bracket,
could knock you out straight up in the top 24,
could make your road to that grand finals way, way longer.
You have to face top opponent after top opponent.
There's so much on the line for this start
and final game between these two players.
And if you're just joining us so far in day number two,
a lot of these well-known trainers,
like the Isaboy in Dunebug, have really been challenged.
The Isaboy has already gone down to the loser side.
And now, Hadamon is one game away
from going down to the loser side.
But if he wins it, he can get the top eight.
And there is the key lead.
He has his course line to the fortress.
Even though Fortress has been winning this in the back,
you're not going to win it in the front.
So does Susie Cedar just swap out?
There is the swap to Dantosa.
try to go for the catch. I like Padma's patience because he knows that if
it wasn't he would really want to throw that he would have. So expecting the
potential catch now has he back to back. My big one and then might come in
with his thumb is after. I don't know something's is going to take a lot super
effective damage on the serve. Actually goes with the double nightjake. Do we see a
shield on the susneater? I mean this time does this really safe for susneater as well
right? Doesn't have a lot of options. Might even just go and swap to the
Let's see what Potomac does.
And look, already at the double surf here.
One surf will not be enough to knock out the Corsula,
but the double surf will definitely be enough.
There is no shield from Potomac.
Is the timer up?
Yes, you could try to swap on it,
but instead trying to go for that nightshade.
No, not even going for the nightshade.
No, like that the surf is gonna be coming anyway.
If the set tries to go for the form down,
wants to use this energy for the backline
against Susie and Cedar.
There could be a potential combo play.
You have to be real, check this.
The bug by damage will add up pretty quickly.
Let's see if Potomac tries to go for swap.
You can see he's reachable.
He knows that the Fortress might come back
to try to snipe away the energy on the Corsair
of Fortress' final shield, but in comes his own Corsair.
And now Pottermine, again, the goal is a reverse.
It's just Fortress versus Corsair
and Corsair of Fortress.
And I'm surprised he actually didn't hit it
into the stun fist there.
Although he does know the Fortress is out there
and could have that sand tune to do super effective damage.
This is the matchup that you don't love.
Now you are in a two-protection deficit.
If you're Pottermine, this is desperate times
For Mr. Day number three, here comes the Rock Tomb.
Will we finally get a protect shield
from Sussan and Xeter, not yet?
Two full shields remaining,
but I think he's feeling confident
that if we look at Potomac's team,
nothing can beat the Fortress, especially up two shields.
He is pointing out his win conditions absolutely perfectly.
Here comes the Potential combo play,
but Sussan Xeter just coming in here and Potomac,
oh, he doesn't even shield a Potential while doing,
just no shields to stand to.
And we have that energy on the course level,
but you don't want to use it right now
because you have no protect shields remaining
and you'll lose charge attack priority.
So the only way to use that energy
is to make sure that Susanus Eater
does not have energy on his torches.
Right now, he doesn't have enough energy for back to back.
Do we see the attack?
No, he is still banking that for the back like that.
He throws it on charge attack priority
that is not what Petal Unwanted
and now all that energy went the way.
Susanus Eater is able to take out the course to luck.
Yeah, this is absolutely devastating for Padaman because he has to get to not only,
he has to get to three moves here to do anything.
The problem is, he cannot thundershot down.
Look at the face on Susie, he knows he's got this in the bag.
And to get again, he's able to defeat Padaman after pride.
He doesn't again, but on the biggest stage,
as Susie makes his top eight finish at a minimum at World Championships.
Doing the impossible, taking out the top trainer
on the planet to advance into top eight.
Tatumon is not eliminated yet.
He is moving down to that loser's side of the bracket,
a place that he is less familiar with,
but Susinus Eater pulls it out,
wins that decisive game number three.
Wow.
And this is what Pokemon goes all about, right?
Anyone can rise to the top,
no matter how big the name is.
We talked about it, right?
Beals the Void, the reigning world champ,
Cantrotter, Lucid Spackett, Potamon,
probably the best player in the world right now
in this entire season, maybe even last season combined,
goes down to Susan Zeter, who hasn't won a trophy,
who hasn't won a medal, who hasn't won a title,
but he is getting to that point right now.
He's finding a way to find a spot in the top eight,
only a few matches away from making a grand finals appearance.
Look his best performance ever in championship series before this was seventh now. He's top eight at the world championships
This these are the stories that history is made of these underdog
Trainers that come in here like fire star did in 2025 a trainer that you didn't know as well or a trainer
That you know has done pretty well
But could never get over that hunt get over that last hurdle in susan its eater
If we could get over that hurdle in this moment to make it the championship Sunday, what a story that would be
But the story really is the underdog so far. He is the boy goes down. Hadamon goes down
Two of our favorites coming into day number one. It's what what time? It's it's 10 a.m
hour
In and already two of our favorites is are on the loser side of the bracket
Yeah, I mean we had both of them two of them in our players to watch and both of them have dropped
I mean it's a tough feel right and it's not a knock on those talented players
They've had so much success in the past
But as they've been climbing the ranks players like Susan here have been watching they've been learning
They've been holding their own crap and what a performance from this young player right here
Susan Zeter who's looking for even more glory and hey, this might be his year
And of course the younger brother you mentioned a nighttime flasher another trainer that had a
the dominant 2026 season.
So he has been near that greatness as well,
picked up some tips and he is absolutely utilizing it right now.
That's right.
And we have more incredible battles
to come, more of our Japanese players as well.
And Kanto's coming up next against one of our NA players,
Auburn.
So this is going to be a really exciting one.
Stay tuned for it, because the action just does not stop here.
We'll be right back.
Francisco as you can see we've got the world championship side we've got the
Pokemon XP side I hear it's absolutely insane in there let's go take a look we
got to get me popping out behind everything that we can let's take a
shot of it
hey how's it going
Beautiful pieces, bringing in close here.
I want you to take a look at this for everyone at home.
This is a fantastic piece.
This is the beautiful save a lie we have right here.
Without question, one of the finest we have.
Beautiful, sparkly.
We have the Eevee right next to it.
And finally, the jigglypuff, very nice collection.
The official matte, limit one per customer.
but I count as two customers, so I will take two.
No.
King Pikachu.
["King Pikachu"]
We've now transitioned from the World Championships
to the XP area.
Space-themed, extremely cool, in my opinion.
cooler than the World Championship area.
I'm probably not supposed to say that.
Let's do some pop outs.
Boom, pop it.
Okay, okay.
Get a picture of me with the Umbreon.
There you go.
The World Championship play mat in bag.
Also limit one.
These are different though.
So I can take, yes, yes.
I got a yes.
Place is pop it.
Beautiful, special, elegant.
One of them's going on a trip, one of them's blasting off,
another one would be in a spaceship.
I think I like Kearley the best.
I have been excited to see this the entire time.
This is the item I have had my eye on
more than anything else, this jacket right here.
It's beautiful, it's special.
I'm not exactly sure where I can wear it,
except everywhere, and I want it very bad.
I will be back for it, because technically,
I'm not allowed to shop for this right now.
in San Francisco, California.
My name is home size Henry joined on the desk
by the one and only Lou the Pikachu.
We've had some incredible games so far
as we make it through our winners out of the bracket
and the action is only getting better from here.
I didn't know how they were gonna top day
one of the competition, but the upsets
that we are having so far here on day two,
the L's avoid down into the losers bracket,
Panama down into the losers bracket,
not out of contention, but certainly gives us
a lot of other trainers to root for going forward
into this competition.
It really feels like some trainers
really making a name for themselves here at this tournament because one thing I
mentioned at the end of day one to be the best you've got to beat the best and
we've seen some trainers who are considered to be as feels avoid pot
domain dropping down to losers but if the European international taught us
anything pot domain and losers is still a very very scary sight to behold let's
not forget at last year's world championships he actually came in
second place coming into that grand final from the winners side of the bracket
so maybe the secret to his success is actually to come into those grand finals
from the loser side of the bracket.
So I'm still keeping my fingers crossed
for Padaman to advance in this competition
alongside all of our other incredible trainers.
So we have three trainers who have already moved on
to winners round two.
We're gonna be continuing as we move down the bracket here
in winners round one.
We have a pretty incredible matchup ready down on the stage
and that is gonna be Contono versus Auburn.
Now Auburn is a veteran of the game.
He participated even before we were part
of the championship series.
He did a lot of grassroots tournaments.
He is a widely veteran.
He has played this game for many years and he is a 4-3 right there with but on the other side of the table
Contono with an incredible anti-meta team
Shadow Gliscor, Shadow Polly Tone, Chargeabog and Pangoro
So this will be kind of more of a matchup between Auburn running more traditional meta
Running the Pokemon that would be the best versus Contono
Who's trying to counter that meta with some very interesting picks
I truly am a lover of these new shadow variants that Contono is running
able to have that Gliscor as well for that ground type coverage. Coming into this meta,
we see a lot of the Stunfisk and particularly in day two, we're seeing a lot of success
with trainers running the Shadow Canto Marowak, for example, that's on the opposing side on
Orban's team. But actually having that ground typing onto the Gliscor is a really interesting
choice coming into this tournament.
Gliscor to me feels like a Pokemon where its energy goes everywhere in this matchup. Gliscor
does have some pretty unfortunate disadvantage states, like if it ever gets down to energy,
then the Shadow Status can end up kind of hindering it. But if it's ever getting up
energy and acrobatics is going to hit for massive damage on almost everything.
506 Pokemon on Auburn team do not have a resistance to flying and the only one that does,
which is Tinketon, would take some pretty significant damage from sandtube spam.
I think as well there are still some of the tried and tested
Reliables out there on the field. We've got those Licky Lickies, number one in our usage stats,
being able to be just so bulky and eat out a load of those attacks. At the same time,
it has some really good coverage into ghost types, but you're not going to find those on the opposing
inside on and Kono's team here.
And I think one of the critical things I want to see
is what these leads are going to be coming out
and where the tone is going to be set
from the very beginning of this dominant match.
One thing that I do like to see in this match,
even though we have the dueling, Licky Lickies,
we don't have course list
because that can be a very polarizing matchup
or course like can't really do a lot.
Licky Lickies should hopefully be more
of a neutral presence in this matchup.
And it looks like the players already,
the game is about to begin.
Contono versus Auburn, game one of winners round one
that it's gonna be Tinketon versus Tinketon.
Look at that, it's a good old mirror to get things started.
Both these Pokemon have the capabilities
to get those energies up
so the Tinketon hammers can't threaten down.
But against an opposing Tinketon,
you might want to be taking up all those buttons
for the additional bit of impact,
but we know that Tinketon hammer can just be so relentless.
Auburn not gonna play into the charge stack
for every tie, instead,
he's gonna look to over farm no shielding Tinketon hammer
that does do some pretty significant damage,
and he's gonna hit back hard with the Tinketon hammer
on his own that is instantly no shielded by Contono.
I love the fact these tinkertons are starting to learn a little bit of what it feels like to be their opponent.
Time to take a hammer, a piece across the field.
Very even Stevens at the moment, the bulldoze is not being locked in on both sides of the field,
but it is going to be Contono's that blinks first.
This is actually a 9v-dependent survive here, and it looks like Auburn may be running.
Unfortunately, not as good of a tinkerton, he's not able to survive, and that was forced to bring in a man-team.
And this is a pretty rough wing attack down.
Contono will be able to make it to a gator-ton hammer, and despite the steel resistance,
That does enough damage and Auburn will actually invest to protect shield.
I mean we've seen when it's resisted how much this Gigaton Hammer can do so the shield does come through on over the side of the field.
You have so much energy primed up on that man team you won't be able to unleash that.
And particularly as the fast attacks are still putting in work it's not enough to be able to get the full farm down and Contono letting this go.
If you're Contono you're ecstatic with how this game is begun.
You were able to neutralize the Tinketon, you got a shield advantage with Manteen.
Manteen was unable to farm down and had them fire off energy as well.
So it really feels like the stage is set.
Contono is trying to set up that Shadow of Life score at an advantage state.
And with that shield advantage, that Shadow of Life score is looking deadly
because there's only a certain amount of acrobatics
that you can end up shielding with only one protect shield remaining.
Yeah, Mantine doesn't want to face down the rollout either,
so as soon as that switch time, it gave it the capabilities.
It got a little bit of energy up against the Licky-Licky,
and now once again, we're in a mirror state between these two trainers.
Licky-Licky just farming up all that energy.
You've got the body sound factor that can just keep going one, two, three times
and start chipping away at this bulky Pokemon.
Even despite the fact that these are exceedingly similar teams,
Tinketon, Licky Licky and a Flyer,
Contono is consistently winning charge tech priority
in those mirror matchups.
The Licky Licky's winning charge tech priority,
the Tinketon won charge tech priority,
and that's making life very difficult for Auburn,
as even though it is a very neutral matchup,
suddenly it feels like those neutral matchups
are actually very disadvantageous.
It's nice to see the GlideScore join the field now again.
It's going for these wing attacks, just farming up the energy.
You have the ability to do some very decent damage
with something like an acrobatics but first of all you've got to take this body slam,
Blisecour able to take that reason really well and does manage to get both its charge
attacks ready to go.
Blisecour will invest a protect shield, Contono trying to set up Blisecour for the end game
sweep.
Body slam, grab the first protect shield, it comes with Mantine with a lot of energy
and he's full setting the acrobatics.
Yeah I think Mantine may be trying to take up the ground type charge attack but instead
acrobatics comes its way, utilizes that shield so Mantine is going to stay safe with all
of this beautiful energy and it threatens with the water poles but it looks like the twister
has been locked in. With the Shadow Glycegore having already taken quite a lot of damage from
Licky Licky, even just a non-symptom attack on his Twister may be enough to secure the knockout.
It's going to be kind of close, although it's a pivot out. In comes Licky Licky, but the energy
will be lost as Twister will secure the knockout. Energy lost on Man's Inside, the energy banked
onto that Glycegore in the back for Contono. Like you said, trying to set up the end game so it
could be relentless with that pressure. It's back on the field right now. Santhume Acrobatics,
it has its choice of charge attacks, but first of all, we're going to have to see the Twister come
and for Contono, even with the Gliscor having the shield advantage, it just needed to do too much.
Man team was always going to require acrobatics to take the knockout.
The reason Contono didn't fire off the acrobatics there was he knew he needed enough residual energy to outpace the licky-licky,
and he just did not have enough.
That's the thing, you can take down one Pokemon, but if there's another one in the back,
you don't have the tools to deal with it, then the victory is going to go to your opponent.
And I think the wisdom and expertise that Auburn has been able to correlate over his years playing competitive Pokemon Go
Pokemon Go really shone through in that endgame scenario.
Where I feel like that game got out of hand for Contono
was when Auburn brought in the Licky Licky.
Contono decided to stay in with the Licky Licky
and ended up firing off a lot of that energy
and the energy isn't particularly valuable
in the Licky Licky here.
So he ended up throwing a bunch of energy
and then bringing the Gliscorps.
The Gliscorps was behind a bunch of energy
so it was no longer in that advantageous state.
So it feels like Contono had a very,
a very strong game plan from the start.
Get the Shield advantage,
set up the Gliscorps to sweep,
but in this endgame right here,
You can never send you. It's a flying type. You have to throw all that acrobatic energy. And if you do, you're just getting out paced by that, Licky Licky.
So I really like the game plan there from Contono, but unfortunately didn't quite end up producing the results he was hoping for.
The different storylines for the Flyers were very critical in that match. We saw a lot of, you know, the leads for the Tinketon in that mirror.
We also saw the Licky Lickies come up against each other. But as you've mentioned, the fast attacks on the Gliscor really going to be null and void into a water flying type in the form of that Mantine as well.
So Manseen was able to get the advantage over its fellow flying type on the opposing side,
needing a little bit more of an advantage for its trainer.
One thing that I liked about Auburn was even though he arguably was in a very disadvantageous position
pretty early on in that match, you never really see Auburn get flustered on stage.
Auburn is always calm, cool, and collected, and that's what you need to be able to turn around
some of these very, very negative board positions there. And he stayed calm.
He was able to maneuver his Pokemon in and out of the match up, banking energy,
and the stored energy on that Mantine, overwhelming the Glyce for him being able to take the knockout on Licky-Licky causing the energy to be lost.
It was honestly just masterful there from Auburn because about halfway through that game, he looked to be in dire straits.
It did look a little bit dicey but that's what I love so much about the twists and turns that Pokemon Go can offer.
You have the timer, you have the shields, there's so many different ways to get increments of advantage and swings of momentum can happen at any point.
These trainers are trying to continue their undefeated run.
We've got an adjustment in the leads.
It's going to be that shadow Glideclaw versus the Shadow Ninetales.
The Shadow Ninetales will have a pretty significant piece of advantage here.
Contono does have the charge buggy back, while trainers massively over farming.
But it's going to be Ninetales that strikes first with a weather ball
and an instant no shield from Contono.
Every single time I'm blown away by the pacing of this Ninetales,
gets that weather ball, that's a huge chunk of damage
into that shadow baron in the opposing side,
and the adjustment comes through.
Auburn going for the tinkertun.
Oh, he calls that it's the acrobatics that's being thrown, catches on the Tinketon.
What a play from Auburn, but that resistance to acrobatics still honestly did a pretty significant amount of damage.
Tinketon being so fearless that could have been a sand soon coming through, but instead can eat up the acrobatics
and get all this beautiful energy up to face down against the Chargerbug, another adaptation on Contono's side.
Perfect charge taktami there from Auburn recognizing the fact that Contono would be one turn behind
throwing four fairy winds and the Tinketon hammer, even though it's resisted.
That's just how strong of a move Gigaton Hammer is.
You're still going to be throwing Gigaton Hammer into a Charger Bug.
Exactly. A Charger Bug now has the opportunity to prove its worth out here.
Is able to go for this discharge. That is a heavy-dealing electric type attack.
And of course, Tinkertong will fall victim to it.
But the Embers is a perfect way for Ninetales to retaliate.
I think it just needed one there to be able to get to the Weather Ball.
Now Contrano has to go for one of these pressure shields to keep the Charger Bug in the game.
And Contrano Preserver, the Charger Bug, is not what Auburn is hoping to see.
because this final Pokemon in the back is going to be that Mantine.
Mantine is really going to not like this E-Chargeableg whatsoever.
So for Auburn, this is not great because the Switch Timer is up.
Contono can go for the combination play.
In comes Gliscorps, Sandtoon locked and loaded.
And now if Auburn wants to preserve the Ninetales,
that final protect shield has to go.
I really like that adaptation thinking,
hey, the Mantine could be in the back.
I need to preserve my Chargeableg for later in the game.
It's not going to be able to do well against this Ninetales.
Now Contono has to have the option here,
bringing us something like the Licky Licky may be going for some of those
rollouts because you want to preserve that charge but if the Mantine shows
itself. There is so much stored energy on the nine tails but nine tails is at
minus one defense courtesy of that sand tube. In comes Licky Licky Auburn will
fire off the weather ball. When does he decide to send in that Mantine? Weather
ball will connect. No Mantine yet. He's gonna stay in and try and get as much
damage as possible but Contono still holding on to that final protect shield
as Licky Licky more than happy to absorb his hits. The Sun is beaming down from the
the sky though, weather ball after weather ball, sponging up all of this
energy on the nine-tailed side and this is the alignment that charge bug wanted
to see the man team in play, charge bug on the field is still has a shield to
protect from this very first twister but now charge bug in that red zone has to
put itself all on the offensive and get these charge attacks down. I think I can
see the idea for Auburn. Auburn is, oh nobody's gonna get the double up,
Auburn's idea there was to try and force the charge bug to throw Ember down
with the nine tails and then win charge stability over the licky-licky but
Contono with the patience to double up well exit with that discharge loaded great counterplay there from Contono
Not falling for Auburn's trap a big sigh of relief there from Contono as he stays alive on the winners side of the bracket and
Forces a game number three
Charger bug believers they've got something right for sure being able to see the way Charger bug was utilized so well in that game
Yes, I had a few dicey lineups against Pokemon like the nine tells the embers were hurting it really strongly
But the fact that Contono was able to utilize that switch timer, get it out safely, bring it back in to find the alignment against the 19, and as you said, critically get to that double discharge to calm out the perfect endgame scenario.
A very, very well executed game plan there by Contono, recognizing this is a bait-off for the Charger Bug.
Auburn found a lot of success with that maintain in game number one. It's probably in the back.
I'm actually going to shield the weather ball and then be able to flare off that discharge pressure away to shield.
the shield. Don't for the combination play with the sand dune and leave the nine tails in the spot where it was had no protect shields
It was a minus one defense and it kind of forced the operant off the field and it used so was really able to set up that charge
But to build up to the back to back
I like the way as well charge above was able to neutralize the tinketon that open still kept from that game one into game two
We know how much damage the gigaton hammer can do even into the opposing tinketon
That was showcased beautifully in game one but seeing the damage be a little more lackluster
still had impact, but it was more underwhelming than we've seen before into the charge, but
just meant that its defensive capabilities were supporting its offensive pressure as well.
I was really impressed by how much damage that resisted at Kropatix,
we go, I scored, take the Ticketon, he's like, oh, what a catch.
And then it still loses 40% of its health part. It's like, I mean, you caught it, but that still
hurt. But at what cost? That took quite a lot of damage. Yeah, at what cost? Exactly right.
Now, kind of set up the charge point, because from full health, Ticketon hit a charge, but Ticketon
a surprising amount of play there because discharge, it's not a particularly strong charge attack,
but with that chip damage, that's what kind of set up that charge bug to kind of get
rolling there and kind of end up steamrolling over that game. I think the 9 tails were still
giving Contono a little bit of difficulty. Possibly we could see an adaptation to something
like the Polo Toad here. Having that fast attack mudshot will apply a little bit of pressure and
you can retaliate with a weather ball in the water form of your very own. Interesting to see
it actually come into this match here facing down against the tinkertop. This matchup is a
little bit tricky for Auburn. The much else will hit for super effective damage. Weatherball doesn't
do a lot, but this matchup is just a war of attrition. There is so many weatherballs, so
incredibly quickly. You're used to the Canton Isle Basin. Polly Toe's Basin is the exact same.
Exactly, because weatherballs will come through thick and fast, but the Gigaton Hammer is prime.
This is going unshielded actually into the shadow Polly Toe here, so the Tinkerton
wanting to try and make swift work considering that that line tells is in the back.
We'll look to try and over farm pretty considerably here.
Holy Toad over farming, playing to the chart type early time, hoping enough mudjuck damage
has been dealt, but this weather ball will secure the knockout.
Yeah, it will come through, connect onto that vulnerable tinketon here.
It does go down, but now Auburn has the utility switch in the back.
Obviously that Licky Licky wants to try and farm up some energy with the rollouts, but
look at the energy on that.
Holy Toad as well, gets to another weather ball, is going to start putting a dent in
Licky Licky's plans.
And this polytote is providing Contono with so much value.
Weatherball is going to connect onto the Licky-Licky, saving a weatherball for later,
reading the nine tails in the back.
That's a terrific play, as Licky-Licky is brought directly into the mirror.
All of these Poker ones actually have some kind of answer for the nine tails,
whether it's a water type attack or a ground type attack.
So you have a way for dealing with it when it reveals itself towards the end of the game.
Right now we've got that slower pace of play.
Both the Licky-Licky's going for these rollouts,
farming up energy and resetting that switch timer.
It really feels like Contono is at the massive state of advantage in this mid game.
He has the health advantage in the licky-licky mirror.
Polly Jones still has the weather fall banks.
There's Glyscore in the back.
Kanto Ninetales may be one of the most threatening Pokemon that you can run in this meta,
but in this game, it feels very heavily targeted.
It can leave us vulnerable to its defenses as well, being in that shadow form.
So even though it can get out a lot of those weather balls at the shield to down,
it can make things difficult for the Ninetales.
Switch coming through on Contono's side, it's going to be that shadow Glyscore.
You can see him nodding. He's happy to have found his mark against our 9 tails.
And he knows at this point that this game is over.
He can just go straight, sandtume.
It doesn't really matter where Auburn uses the protect shield.
The first sandtume can be shielded. He could even shield the second sandtume.
But polytode, the foresight to save the weather ball from earlier,
is going to be what is check made for Auburn. It guarantees the win for Contono.
That's the thing, even if your shield for sandtume debuff will still come through,
making this 9 tails more and more vulnerable by the minute.
Glycego again, gets to the second charge attack,
Auburn lets us go through, see the riding on the wall.
Contono also seeing the victory in sight, smiling,
laughing across the table, heavy damage comes through
and seals it.
Contono will be advancing into the next stage,
still undefeated.
You love to see the emotion from Contono,
and the reason Auburn lets that go
is because of that banked weather ball in the back.
There's just simply three super effective charge stacks.
There's only two protect shields per game,
and the map is added up to Contono,
advancing to winners round two.
Love to see this set, an incredible game
from both of our competitors.
Of course, Auburn's still in the competition,
just will be dropping down to the loser's side
of the bracket.
But another best of three thriller
that we got to be able to cast over,
it's incredible to see the adaptations come through.
And I love seeing that throughout the tournament
with Contono made the adaptation as well.
You know, bringing in the Glyscore,
bringing in the Polytoad as well,
constantly making adaptations to root his opponent.
That Polytoad bringing in game number three,
He was an incredible adaptation. Look at how much value the polyjoke got.
He was able to knock out under the tinketon. It doubled up on weather balls.
It got good damage on the licky-licky, allowing him to pin it into the mirror at a pretty significant health advantage.
And then just have that weather ball stored in the bag saying,
if you bring the Kanto Ninetales, this is my you don't get to run Ninetales line.
And he read Ninetales into the Kanto Ninetales line.
And that is what allowed Kanto to have that perfect read.
Sometimes it's about trying to play strong into what your opponent's bringing.
And that's exactly what he did.
Very well played there by Contono.
A very nice bounce back series there,
as all we really asked for on the desk is just Game 3.
We liked Game 3, so that was a pretty terrific Game 3.
Had a great adaptation from Contono.
And let's not forget as well the charge
about putting in some work in that Game 2 as well.
Another adaptation coming through,
wanting to find its alignment against the opposing man team,
unless exactly the victory he was able to carve out.
So, fantastic adaptations.
Great to be able to see alignment
that going one a player's way.
But we've got some more epic games coming up.
And first let's let's actually go through the winner side of the bracket
Let's see where we are so far here Amaru taking down Beelzeboi
We had a dune bug versus here Amaru in top eight and then we are going to have sustenance eater versus condono
So our top eight bracket filling out very quickly here, and I believe oh my goodness if we're going in order
That means our next game is going to be between two Titans from Europe boom 20 versus M.E.
the world's most important
team. We're going to have to
be riddle. These are two
trainers that have the
privilege of being able to
cast over throughout this
2026 season and seeing them
now on the world stage,
having to battle it out a
little bit. Maybe thing is
almost like your local is a
little bit. You know, being
up to bring your riddles to
the international stage, so
that is one that you do not
want to miss jumping down to
the loser side of the bracket,
though. We can see some of
the trainers that we were
showcasing earlier today.
Raining World champion also
panaman who came second
place at last year's world
into this loser's bracket,
to get into those grand finals once again.
And for those doing the math at home,
it looks like there is an opportunity for Potomac
and Beelzeboi to play if they continue to win.
And that would be in losers round five.
So we'll kind of have to keep you up to date
with the losers bracket as it goes.
Because if we get that world's final feedback,
that would be incredible.
Everyone will be tuning in.
I will be tuning in.
If I'm not the best, you know, I will be backstage
eagerly watching that game.
Because that world's finals 2025,
one of the best I've ever seen.
It would be incredible.
it was absolutely electric being in the arena for the very first time as well
seeing history being made and panaman coming in on the winner side of the
bracket B.L. Zaway had to reset that in a best of five and then do that all over
again to get the title honestly every single twist and turn of that match was
electric obviously panaman coming in second place was not what he wanted so
this year he's trying to go that one step further and B.L. Zaway is trying to be
the first world champion to run it back and get a second title at both of them
already off to pretty good starts obviously not the start to date to that
by no means should you ever count them out exactly they certainly are and it's nice to kind of
reminisce a little bit about some of the memories made at last year's world championships there are
memories being made at the 2026 world championships as well you guys have been getting involved on
social media and sharing some of your messages and pictures with us so let's take a closer look at
this i waited years for this moment so happy i got a chance to come to pokemon worlds this year
look at that mariah on that is a flashback from pokemon scarlet and pokemon violet on the video
game side of things, but just this is such an iconic thing to look at. Oh, that is incredible.
I believe I, oh yes, I got to see the other one, the Maraidon. They actually had it out and about
yesterday. Yeah, I saw the Maraidon going around. That was so cool. And so this was also from Dark
Master Spence getting to check out both Maraidon and Karaidon. Just incredibly cool designs and
to learn that they were actually functional kind of flew my mind as well. I was not prepared for
for that whatsoever. Kind of thought it would be a prof and then it was actually moving.
Another thing that you can kind of collect and have memories of this incredible pin rally
mission almost completed just missing the Kaliya pin. These are actually incredible. So many
people's favorite Pokemon that you've got the Greninja, for example, you've got the tornadoes
iconic Pokemon through competitive history that you can pick up as a pin very exclusive
here at the Pokemon World Championships. I'm going to have to check that out because I
have a big fan of Greninja. So hearing about a Greninja pin, I know what I'm doing the
moment I get off camera. All right next match up here two of Europe's best and
brightest stars boom 20 versus M.E. Weedle. Boom 20 is a regional champion. He
won the first ever regional he attended in his consistency this season has been
suck it to none and then there's M.E. Weedle the 2022 Pokemon Go Seniors
Division World Champion M.E. Weedle also a European international champion as
as well. This is a heavy weight
bounce to of Europe's best.
And honestly, two of the world's best.
Honestly, we could be here all day
just listing all of their athletes
champion this champion that these are two phenomenal
trainers and to be able to see them showcasing on the
world stage is an absolute privilege
looking at that match up though. However, you mentioned
you like Greninja. There's no Greninja here, but there is
no shortage of water type Pokemon either. We've got a zoomer
we've got Quagsire on every
Weedle side Quagsire and the impoli on as well.
I do really like how both Quagsires
look in this matchup. I feel like they have the potential to offer quite a lot of neutral play.
So wouldn't be surprised especially if Boom ends up leaning on that Quagsire as that's a Pokemon that he's very very familiar with in past
regionals and he's very very good at using.
Exactly and taking a look at what their leads are going to be as well.
It's going to be critical in this match to gain that momentum not just in the match, but also in the head of your opponent.
Let's get into it. Our trainers are already on the stage between Boom and Emmy Weedle.
It's going to be that Ninetales vs. Corsola.
Now, in this matchup of four, we've seen Boom actually farm up to 10 embers rather than 7.
Now, oh, interesting. This time he ends up going on 7, so not over-farming nearly as much at adjustment in play pattern.
The reason why farming up to 10 can be very useful is it makes it very awkward for the Corsula.
But instead, he's gonna go for the switch, predicting Enny Weedle with the undertap,
but Enny Weedle predicting that switch ended up going for the Nightshade bait.
Moves and counter moves with these mind games that Quagsire now in play to just stop bombing up that energy trying to put a dent into Corsair's defensive
Of course, it'll actually back to the energy you're able to acquire and bring to the Empolion into play
And normally sending Empolion into a ground tap is what you're wanting to do with open team sheets and the Weedle knows that this Quagsire does not have one bomb
It's on Stone Edge and off with the Elso and Polion actually ends up being a very effective way to neutralize energy from that Quagsire
Yeah, the Stone Edge more beneficial into Pokemon flyers or fire types for example
But of course being that steel type you're not going to worry about it on a podium side of the field instead
You can just go for hydrocanon after hydrocanon and start really putting in some work together the shield on boom side
Boom is getting off of the opera tail the no shield from we do opera tail will favor take the dog out
This will force boom into throwing quite a bit of energy
He's going to click the second opera tail as well if we don't put some of her tech shield
Boom does have the potential ability to switch out to the zoom role but no protection comes out and be a little more than happy
Just utilize him hold on as he damage punch and save his shield advantage for his final two Pokemon
I think Quaps are realising if you can't get the shield you might as well take down a Pokemon here.
So manage to get the knockout and now you have to face down against this Flauges.
The Flauges on this side isn't running that trailblaze however so you don't have to worry about that super effective grass type attack.
Instead you can get this Aquatail down onto your opponent but all that energy on Flauges' side is now banked!
Back in comes the Corsula. Corsula does have a ton of energy from earlier.
But this Corsula is in a range where the bubbles are putting it into playoff range.
So for Boom, it's honestly not a terrible spot to be in.
Corsola will be able to reach quite a few nightshades,
but against the bulky Azumarill,
Corsola is a defensive Pokemon and really can't do a lot of damage,
and it's going to be Boom looking to pressure away that first protect shield
as he clicks play rough.
Azumarill's just going to hold his nerve,
keep going for these play roughs,
keep pressuring that Corsola and trying to force these shields through.
That can allow the Ninetales of the Quagsile to start cleaning up in the back.
The nightshades are being racked up though,
as you mentioned here into the Azumarill,
but it's got the bulk to be able to withstand that.
Boom can protect the shields on Azumarill's side.
Nightshade is going to land onto the Azumarill.
Boom does have the play rough.
He's going to over farm. Oh, he gets the catch out of the nine tails.
And this way, he's able to save that Izumarul energy because he views that that is going to be more valuable into that floor chest.
Exactly. And this nine tails is going to be able to eat up that nightshade, get some embers off as well.
Not enough to be able to get the farm down. However, you are going to have to go for that weather ball.
But critically, you're propping one of those precious shields.
Boom through two embers and the move there to try and force Weedle into shielding.
So the astonished would register this is going to set up a farm down for Weedle.
He does exit with energy.
The Azumaril is very low, but it does have a player up.
Player up. We do a lot of damage on the Forges.
Now, boom, in a bit of a rough spot here.
A.C. gonna be bringing in that Quagsire
to try and absorb the energy.
Switch timer is up, in the Quagsire, there's the pivot,
and Forges will hit the field.
Yeah, so much energy on that Forges as well.
There is one shield remaining on a boom side of the field.
It is utilized on this Quagsire,
keeping it in the game to try and get some more damage dealt
onto this opposing Forges.
It is banked for later. However, Azumaril comes in.
It's got that player up.
It's finally able to unleash onto its very counterpart across the field the quagsire did it bank some energy Weedle looks worried play rough will land
Florgis does not get there the bubble takes the KO back it comes to Corsola
It has a charge attack, but it cannot get enough damage onto the quagsire a zoom row may fall
But quagsire will not boom 20 pulls magic out of a hat there
My goodness what a game and he steals away game number one
right down to the wire such incredible energy conservation on both sides of the
field but it really came down to that quite at the end forcing the course
letter have unleashed all the energy beforehand quags I could come in and
just clean up that game game one goes to boom Lou I need to talk about booms
decision that's no embers that was brilliant because by throwing two embers
there the second astonished damage will never land unless we don't put up a
shield because he would have knocked out. What Boom needed to do was basically
force Weedle into shielding to clear the ground for Azumur's play rough to knock
out the Forges. So in doing so, by throwing two, Weedle says, oh that's kind of an awkward
farm down as a fire type and a fairy wind of the Forges. I'm forced shield, but the
moment he does that, so the Astonish lands, that cleared the path. The reason he
caught back out of the Ninetales was to save that play rough for Forges. Just an
absolute click. It was this moment right here. He saves that play rough because he
He knows that is the hardest hitting charge stack remaining onto that for this absolutely
masterful end game mechanics bear by boom.
He just keeps getting away with their loop.
Honestly, that's teamwork at its finest.
Flaugers is one of the most popular Pokemon because of the bulk that it has on the field.
But we know that Zoomer with that play rough takes a while to get to it mind.
So once you've put in that effort to store all the energy you want to make sure it is
unleashed on the right Pokemon and that's exactly what Boom was able to carve out here.
All right.
The battlers are ready.
Number two, the leads are locked in.
It's going to be a battle of the fairy
jabs.
Florg is for Emmy Weedle into Togekiss for Boom.
Yeah, kind of thinking if Zoomer was for trouble,
we have got another one on the field.
Togekiss coming in with its fairy typing as well.
But interestingly, its move pull is so diverse.
Florg is now not going to go for a shield hit.
He is going to be able to happily take this Scishop damage.
One thing that's helpful for Boom in this matchup
is the fact that outside of it holding on,
there isn't really a resistance to Scishop.
So he doesn't necessarily have to be worried about a catch.
There isn't Empolion in the back though, but if we pin it out, it goes to Fragsire, Fragsire will be able to outpace your Fragsire, makes the Aqua Tail, but Evie Weedle reads it, and he's going to catch on to that Empolion.
Yeah, Empolion coming in, you bank that energy onto that floor just Empolion in a position where it just wants to start getting these Hydra Canons down onto the Fragsire, possibly forcing some of Boom Shields to come through.
But you have to of course contend with damage coming through, you don't have to worry about Stone Age, the Aqua Tails will come through thick and fast, look at all this energy coming up, but again, Hydra Canons are primed.
He's gonna fire off the Stoneage. Stoneage does do more, but will not threaten the knockout.
M.E. Weedle will need to fire off back-to-back Hydro Cannon, since this is the non-Shadow Quagsire.
It doesn't really do a lot of damage, but also doesn't really take a lot of damage.
Boom will know that M.E. Weedle is doubled off, and he will actually invest to protect Shield.
He is investing in the Quagsire. The second Hydro Cannon has been reached.
Boom has to decide, is he gonna double Shield? Is he really willing to burn all protections of the Mesh on the Quagsire?
He says yes.
This is nice, not just for the shields, but also to get that switch timer ready to rock again.
You can bring in the Ninetales now, pressuring down against that crack start with the energy ball.
You've got rid of the shields on the opposing side, it is going to be vulnerable.
Ninetales, why is he going for a shield that's very own, so he can give himself the wiggle room
to get to those energy balls?
Aquatail number two is going to be in shield number two from M.E. Weedle.
Does Boom look to try and put out? He doesn't have any energy on the Togi,
because he's going to bring in the Malamar. This is the non-shadow Malamar,
Emi-Wido farming up as much energy as possible.
He's hoping that an energy ball plus a weather ball will be enough to knock out Malamar before it can make it to the superpower.
Yeah, you can go over this energy ball, a couple more embers to get to that weather ball and just start stacking up.
Malamar is a lot more vulnerable, both of those potentials utilized on the Clagsire early on.
This is the arena that the Ninetales loves to play in, just constant pressure, constant charge attacks.
Malamar is hanging on, however, and it is going to be able to get the foul play off onto the Impoleon.
Nice catch by Emi-Wido.
Boom is gonna go for full under charge. He does not want to knock out the Impoleon, but even if he foul play, fully under charge, takes the knockout, back in comes Ninetales.
Ninetales does get a small energy head start. Back in comes the Quagsire. This is gonna be a charge attack by already dying here.
Quagsire versus Ninetales, and it's gonna be Ninetales winning it! And boom! His head in his hands! He cannot believe it! That is gonna seal the game!
Quaxxire will fall, all that's left is Togekits, it is completely energy dry, and that 1, 2, 3, 4 pacing of Ninetales is inevitable.
ME Weedle gets the equalizer, and we're going to a game number 3.
This truly is just Ninetales world, and we are living in it. Such incredible energy pressure the whole way through, getting to that energy pool.
Yes, we had that charge track priority moment, but Ninetales was just able to get the edge, this is exactly what ME Weedle needed.
And look, once again, we got ourselves a game 3!
I'm so happy. I love game number three's. I've got to say these are two of the best trainers in the entire world
You can see on their faces how worried and nervous they are about this matchup
They know the stakes. They know the opponent sitting across the table from them
They know how strong of a player their opponent is so they know each moment can be the difference between victory and defeat
The margin for error in this matchup is non-existent
coming into game three now you have to ask the question where are the
adaptations going to be made? Boone was able to win more victoriously with the
Azumaril, switched it out and brought the Togikis for example could that
adaptation be something he wants to switch back to? Oh that's tough the Togikis
honestly feel like even though it's a pretty decent matchup into the Vorgis it
really didn't end up providing the results that he was hoping for because he
pitted it out of the matchup and Widow's ability to bang the energy on that
Vorgis and then bring the Empolion to kind of utilize the Graxire made it a
very awkward matchup. So I think for any Weedle, he's always going to be bringing
that Apollion as it is a very effective check to the Quagsire. And I did like
that. I did like the Floridus. I think Apollion Floridus is probably going to be
very, very common from Weedle. Yeah, Floridus looks great here. You don't have to worry
about any steal of poison types coming your way. So you're able to withstand a lot
of attacks. It looks like Boom is sticking with that Togikis. However, on the
opposing side is the Glaring Corsula here to play. Boom would love to be able to
get a catch out of this matchup. But Corsula never really under any pressure
for very early, he's going to bank a charge stack, bring in the Quagsire.
Forceler's going to look to probably try and bank up a bunch of energy here
and then send in the Empolion.
Going to bank up to 100, reach for that nightshade before he's able to get there.
That's actually going to be the Stone Edge coming up from the Quagsire.
That's some pretty valuable chip damage onto the Corsula.
Yeah, that's certainly going to hurt, but Corsula's sitting pretty with all that energy
banked in the back and Polion now coming onto the field,
going for these Meta Sounds to get up these Horticanas.
And this is the same state of play we've seen consistently through the set,
Utilizing all of that energy and once again, Quagsile pressuring with the Stone Edge.
Now the question is, did all that astonish damage mean if the Quagsile is in Hydro Candid range?
If it isn't single Hydro Candid range, that would be a very big swing for Riedel.
We're gonna have to stay here, booms, no shielding, he's hoping Quagsile can't hold on.
This is gonna be a close one.
Hydro Candid is gonna connect, but the Quagsile barely able to hang on and will get that Aqua Tail.
This is exactly what the Quagsile needed to do.
You know that there's gonna be two Hydro Candids coming your way.
You have to take one of them and it's exactly what the Quagsile was able to pull through
on the Apertile connects, you bank out that energy and once again Tobi gets here to unleash
the energy it had stored earlier in the game.
And any Weedle will always invest the protection here because he knows he has 100 energy on
the Glaring Corsula.
So at this point, it's a numbers game.
I need to start crushing away shields.
If I can get Boom to use a shield, then I can hit him with the Corsula and the Corsula
does have those back-to-back charge stacks locked and loaded.
So in comes the Corsula.
Boom.
It is back-to-back power gems and Boom is in a very rough spot.
He's forced to no shield because even if he shields, a power gem is still going to
connect.
There's just so much energy up on that course,
so one power gem down, another one to go,
but you don't even have to utilize it on that toga,
because you're able to knock it out from the sky.
Now you've got to face down against the side waves
coming through from this Malamar,
but again, you have so much energy,
Nightshade can be dealt across the field.
An ME Weedle, he's nodding,
he's feeling good about his position
because Boom has to try to rely on the Malamar,
but it's going to be the Florgis in the back.
Florgis, a complete wall to energy from the Malamar.
So even as Boom accumulates
It's massive amounts of Malamar energy.
It's just really not going to go anywhere.
Corsa just has to put in some work against this Malamar,
and then the Flauchers can really start to clean up
coming in with those fairy winds,
particularly with the vulnerable state of the HP bar
that this Malamar is left in at the moment.
It has all the energy,
but foul play is not going to do too much.
We know that the superpower wouldn't do too much,
and we then get the debuff,
so it really looks like Malamar's back is up against the wall.
This is the non-shadow Malamar as well,
so there's not even a world in which you can throw
a certain amount of foul plays,
threat that protects shield. The fairy wind damage is inevitable. M.E. Weedle is inevitable.
This Florges just completely shutting down this Malamar. Even a third foul play will
be reached, but this game just completely feels out of reach for Boom.
Malamar is doing everything it can, foul play after foul play, but there's a shield, there's
the bolt, there's just the offensive pressure from the fairy winds coming through. And look
at that energy as Quackster comes out. Florges is there to meet up with this army voice.
a set from M.E. Weedle. Boom with an outplay of incredible proportions. The steal away game
for one and for a lot of trainers it really feels like that could kind of just completely
destroy your mental to the point where you just end up getting O2. But Weedle was able
to compose himself, stay calm, execute his game plan and get the reverse sweep winning
games two and three. He's moving on here in Worlds to winners round two.
Again, boom. Maybe down but certainly not out at this point in the competition. He'll
just be dropping down into the loser's bracket for M.E. Weedle. What an incredible showcase
of excellence the whole way through that set. We talked about the Ninetales play, but in
the game three, what really was the critical moment of one him that set?
It really felt like his ability to neutralize that Quagsire with Impoleon. Recognizing the
fact that he non-shadowed Quagsire, even the Superfective Bloodshots are not going to
do a whole lot of damage, but not just sending in the Impoleon immediately, but farming up
energy on the other Pokemon. It was that decision to bank 100 Corsal Energy saying, you know
That totally just it could get out of hand. I've seen it get out of hand before
But if I have two power gems back to back and then I'm able to get enough astonished damage to put it very close
Hydro cannon range. It's all about the energy management setting your Pokemon up in the best position to succeed
And that's what he was able to do there that decision to stay in with the Corsola and bank the energy and bring a poly on
My jaw drops when I saw it first. I I didn't quite see the vision. I was like over staying in what's going on here
I think they're genie pivoted and you kind of have that. Oh, oh
Oh, I see what's happening now.
Oh, no, that TobiKiz is in danger.
Very, very smart gameplay there from Eddie Weedle.
He's moving on, and that series was honestly just absolute sensational.
It was just incredible.
I mean, we see it a lot with the Impoleon, right?
It's got a reputation for banking Hydra Cannon after Hydra Cannon
and then being able to just do them back-to-back.
But we saw that on the course of a play so beautifully as well
with the power gems in the Nightshade.
It just meant that you had flexibility,
whether you want to be able to hit the TobiKiz,
whether you want to be able to just get some damage down onto the Quaxxire,
constantly having I want to say that composure to not be tempted to click
here by charge attack ready let's get some damage on the board and being so
cognizant of when you could paste a two of them and when your opponent would know
that you're at them and applying that pressure forcing them to have the mind
game with the shield was just such beautiful play any leader what an
absolutely masterclass to behold I think a lesser player without a shadow of a
doubt would probably throw a nightshade into that quacksire and that's what
Boomb was hoping for trying to utilize the browser to absorb charge stacks that
he didn't want the Toei just to take.
So, Weedle's decision to recognize,
I don't need to throw a knight ship.
What if I just throw a bunch of astonishes?
And then I just bring in the Empolion
to wall off the energy was incredible.
A very good understanding of which Pokemon matter in a game,
what energy matters, and prioritizing that Corsula energy,
and then using Empolion to make sure that his Quaxire
never really got a significant amount of value
in that series.
An amazing series, two of Europe's best.
We can't ask for anything for, I'll be honest.
Honestly, like for me, it wasn't even just about the charge attacks.
The fast attack play, very, very technical skill.
You're talking about the two embers that went through making sure that, you know,
a knight ship was able to connect or not, really these increments of damage.
And critically, I think the increments of energy generation as well
really did start to swing momentum.
So congratulations to both trades.
That was absolutely incredible to behold.
What a series.
Two great competitors.
And for those who are a big fan of boom, he's not a mighty means.
He's dropping the loser's side of the bracket.
But boom, he has won a lot of games in the championship series, so I definitely would not count him out.
But while we wait for the next changes to get on the stage, let's take a look at our day 2 meta.
Because there's a Pokemon that I really want to talk about.
It was on my Casino Picks. It's number 9. He's a beautiful whale, Don Dozo.
Now, from a ABG background, seeing Don Dozo without Tatsugiri, probably a little bit weird.
It's a little weird, I'm not gonna lie. I'm like, where is the little fish that needs for that commander ability?
the abilities aren't here in Pokemon Go, so seeing Dondozo actually, we call it kind of solo Dodo a little bit,
is actually so awesome to behold, and it's just relentless, it stays on the field, it just doesn't go anywhere, it's so hard to get rid of.
I think where Dondozo's strengths lie is its ability to consistently play zero-shelf matchups.
Dondozo doesn't have the fastest pacing ever, but with Surf and Outrage, its charge stats both do some pretty significant damage,
Waterfall does decent amount of damage as well, and it just has truly monstrous stats.
It can survive. I mean, if you look at number six in Polyon, in theory, should wall Dondozo.
I've been to the Polyon there against Dondozo when they go battle leap.
I had a terrible time.
I can't even count how many drill pegs I threw at that thing in the Dondozo.
He was still just grinning at me as the water fall down by Polyon.
So Dondozo's ability, we actually saw a Sustenance Eater do a really good job of that,
was basically use Dondozo as a set up Pokemon.
Dondozo's bulk allows it to win a lot of zero shove matchups.
And then if you have one of those Glacier Sweepers in the back,
using Dondozo's ability to set up Switched Advantage for that Sweeper,
shield advantage either way can put your super in a really good position for success.
There's a really nice flexibility of defensive and offensive Pokemon in the
matter at the moment and I like that balance that's coming through Dondo's
obviously we've spoken about how it's just got so much HP for days but
Licky Licky as well one of the number one Pokemon yes it has that bulk but I
really like its flexibility and its moves as well having that shadow ball to
be able to deal with opposing ghost types as well does allow it to have a lot
of pressure and we have a few other Pokemon flexible move pools the Malamar
for example has such a wide range. I really like Malibar and speaking of that what a transition
we got Malibar on PvP David's team. PvP David I believe this is the same team as Boom if
I'm not mistaken so we unfortunately saw Boom drop to losers David and Boom very good friends
I believe they have the exact same birthday they have the team built together as well
so he is running that exact same team but his opponent has the Dondozo it's gonna be
the game. And the
game is going to be a
battle between the Jin's
Corsella regular Meruac
carving shadow Pidgeot. This
shadow Pidgeot is an air
cutter and heat wave, so it
does have coverage into
potential Tinkerton. No
ticket on to be seen on
David's side. Yeah, that's
really true. And the shadow
Pidgeot are really unique
pick, but I believe we saw
that one on the broadcast
yesterday against in
adequence, and that was
actually the Pokemon going
for the heat wave, forcing
his opponent to call the
shield or not. And the
this particular matchup.
If I take a look across these teams,
I think Pidgeot does have play here.
Even though it doesn't have Braebird,
Shadow of Ghost hits incredibly hard,
and He-Wave is a surprisingly decent move neutrally.
So I wouldn't be surprised to see Pidgeot here,
and maybe if you're trying to set up one of those,
like Glassy Sweeper, like Pidgeot plus support,
what do we have here?
Don Dozo.
Don Dozo is very good at playing out zero.
So seeing a Shadow of Pidgeot plus Don Dozo,
definitely would not surprise me,
but he's taking a look across this team.
As long as Dondozo is able to avoid the zoom world, that's its only really negative magic.
Outside of that, I would argue Dondozo is favored in 5-6 magic here.
I kind of buy the Foraches as well, again it's another really bulky Pokemon.
As long as you can avoid a Pokemon like the Ninetales, it can sit in a really nice position
to start debuffing with the Sand Tomb and the Rock Tomb and just keep bug biting away
opponents particularly if it can find its line against the opposing Malamar.
And if you do find yourself up against that Ninetales, at least you can have the partnership
of your good buddy Dondozo to try and wash that Pokemon away.
Yeah, because even if you have a super effective energy ball for the Dondozo, the bulk of Dondozo, it's just no shielding, it's surviving, and it is just crushing you with waterfalls.
So, I wouldn't be surprised to see David try and lean on Azumaril in this matchup, because if you're expecting Dondozo plus Pyveeot, arguably your best Pokemon into that duo would be something like the Azumaril.
Azumaril is very slow, but it's always Dondozo.
Looks like the battlers are set. We've got lock-ins game number one winners round one gins versus PVP David
It's gonna be that shadow pig yacht into quagsire
Yeah, pity on up in the skies not gonna be worrying too much about the mud shots that come through
But it does have to watch out for the stone edge
So jins needs to be competent of when that stone edge has been reached and make sure to protect the pity on accordingly
David farm's of the stone edge goes for the pain and it's the shield comes out from Jim's one thing to know about the shadow
Pidgeot every time it does air cutter busy 30% chance at the tack. He's gonna build up to the back to back
David knows he will always be able to hang on here, but he will actually start investing with that shield
Yeah, maybe wanted to keep the pressure of that quads iron play against the Pidgeot with something like that
Stone edge a little bit later on not gonna see any of buffs that come through here
And again, it's gonna be the sandwich out another shield on the Pidgeot though
That is big for David to awkward till fades to shield from Jin's Jin's is grimacing as now
but Waxire is set to outpace.
David can put up the protection shield.
He'll always build outpace to make the Stone Edge.
Now David has to be very careful.
He has to make sure that he sees the gust start
to ensure Jinx doesn't wait and try and go for a catch.
Exactly. Stone Edge this time has been locked in.
This is perfect timing.
You were able to bait away the two shields.
Now this Pidgeot is completely exposed.
Stone Edge is going to be able to find its mark.
And considering that there's probably
going to be a Donde Dozo in the back,
I would not be surprised to see David actually stay in here.
A lot of trainers don't want to concede farm downs,
but he, no matter what he sees,
He knows he's going to have one very hard check to it.
So when Dondozo hits the field, he has a zoom roll.
He's always going to be staying in here.
Even if he couldn't make the stone edge, which he can,
it's worth conceiving the farm deck.
This is a rare mulled word.
Dondozo energy will actually be valueless.
That's true, actually.
You give the energy to the Dondozo,
but because there's no shields,
you have a window of opportunity
to put some dents into the defenses of that Dondozo.
That's a tongue twister and a half, I have to say.
But now, as well, losing actually one poke
will give you that free opportunity
to bring in this zoom roll.
They can just start going for these bubbles.
It will come down against the courseless,
but because it was the KO switch in,
you still had the switch opportunity
to bring in the Licky Licky.
And this is just checkmate for Jins.
There is no way out.
Jins is laughing about it, he knows.
The moment he ended up double shipping the Aqua Tails,
he was in trouble.
Licky Licky just completely shuts down Corsola.
There's nothing it can do.
And Jins, it looks like he's not even going
to throw a charge stack.
He's basically just conceding,
and now he can spend the time making notes,
double checking what did he run for game number one.
What were the moments in the game
which has got away from me and what adjustments can I potentially make in game number two?
Because the battlers have a limited amount of time between game one and two.
What is game number one finishes, if you know it's already over.
That gives him a little bit of extra time to think.
I really like to see that sportsmanship though, as well kind of going,
hey, game one is lost, but this is why we play a best of three second.
Let me get my pen out, let me start taking down some notes,
seeing how much damage comes into my Pokemon as well.
And I think that's a really nice way to start adapting going forward into the set.
But I say this time and time again, the fourth Pokemon is the trainer.
And PvP David really was just able to dominate into the mind-stance of Jyns, constantly applying pressure with those baits and getting them correct.
The double bait was diabolical, and it looks like that double bait was required.
Had he gotten even one stone and shielded, Pidgeot could have won the two-shield.
I was a little bit surprised when I saw the first air-cutter shielded, that the moment we saw the double bait, the plan was clear.
Double bait, land stone edge, dictate switch advantage, and do not let Dondozo align anywhere except that Izumarill.
that's exactly what happened.
A zoomer was able to find his mark
against the Dondo so that did put
in a valley and effort, but kind of
like you said, it can be slow to get
to those attacks. And if you have
the shields down and you have so much
energy on the opposing side of the
field, it can really just start to
chip away. And then once a zoomer
was in play, Dondo so was not having
a good day. But we're moving into
game two. This is where things can be
reset. Jin's line up, I think was
pretty good. It might be tempting to
kind of run that back again, but
this time be a bit braver with the
calls at the same time on PVP David
side. What if you now just go for
star ninjas. David was able to basically have, I would argue the the
game plan worked to perfection in game one. He got the double bait, he got the
alignment he needed, everything worked exactly the way that he was hoping for
and he made it look pretty easy. However I would still argue that this is a
profoundly negative matchup for him. I feel like Jens has a lot of things that
he can run and David kind of has to get it perfect to have a chance because if
Dondozo is not on that a zoom world, Tondozo is a nightmare in this matchup.
I think as well if you're Jinz you might want to possibly bench that Pidgeon even though it was great into you know
Many of the Pokemon the opposing side the fact that you don't want to put yourself in that scenario to have to make the coin flip
Decisions can be a little bit of a side relief you have bulky Pokemon like the Dondo so Corsola and of course the Forrest as well
It will be nice to be able to see these Pokemon possibly come to the forefront
I want to see Dondo's in front and center though. It'd be great to be able to see that Pokemon out in the leads
at four gins. I think the Dondoza will always be broad. Dondoza is just too good in this matchup,
but now it's about just trying to make the calls. What can I do to set up better alignment?
Because with 18 as polarizing as this, the name of the game is going to be playing for
switch advantage. I mean, you have a carbon called the team, you have a Meroac, you have a bug by
four address. So for David, he's almost going to have to try and play for alignment, which just
seems a little bit antithetical to how his team is built. His team is built to try and have as
much flexible plays possible but for Jinz he's trying to disrupt that and if he can root for
switch advantage and set up that dondo that was good alignment it's gonna be very tough for David.
You know what we haven't even really spoken about the carving we speak about all the other
fairy tides the floor jizz and the tinketon but carving is out here as well it's actually gonna
be out in the lead so let's see what it's gonna be able to do against this licky licky. Oh that is
not what David's talking to see he's gonna save for Timothy Azumaril oh a very slow switch from
Jinz as he brings in that shadow bug by Fortress but as it's like these unlike David has hydro pump
on the Azumarill to threaten massive damage.
Yeah, that Hydro Pump is really nice to be able to see.
You get that same type of attack bonus as well,
and it can be a really heavy hit.
Contrast to the Ice Beam that we primarily maybe see
on the Azumarill for those dragons and fires.
Fortress is going to hide behind the shield.
It's got lots of energy.
Vanguard can start to get these debuffs rolling.
And if it's in choice from Jim's,
opting for the defense drop of same two
rather than the attack drop of Lock 2.
Same two, not going to do much for Azumarill's defense,
and he's now going to be lowered.
Azumarill reaching for that Hydro Pump.
It's still several bubbles away.
Jim will make the lock to and with a zoom rules defense debuffs. Will this take the knockout?
I think it's a real good hold on here. Let's have a look at this bulky
But it is debuffs the rock soon connects and of course a zoomer hanging on just into the red zone here
It's a tack drop as well
So this is going to mean that the hydro pump isn't going to be doing as much damage
But it is still such a powerful move if this takes the knockout this could be game-changing hydro pump land
But it doesn't take the KO kind of zoom rule get the farm down. It's going to be close
It does not get the farm down
forward to his actually butt bites down, and that is catastrophic for David.
Yeah, Licky Licky now coming in facing down against the Carving.
This was not the poke when he wanted to see him the lead,
and now he's got to face down against his nemesis once again,
switches out, brings into the quanti, and now once again is the battle of the water types.
Don Dozo so incredibly bulky.
What will dictate this matchup is, is there ever a world
in which the mud shots plus two stone edges could secure the knockout?
David very intentionally stayed into bank of shadowball,
because potentially there there is an ability to play out the match of long enough and put in the shadow ball range where you could go for a combination play
and then still have the quagsire to be difficult for the carving, but it still looks to be a very difficult road ahead for David.
Yeah, it's nice to have the energy as you said, but you want to find a way to get through this Dondozo.
At least you've got rid of the shields on that side of the field, but these serves and the averages are primed on the Dondozo side.
Quagsire, once again, going to be going for these stone edges. We've seen it put in some work, but the HP bar off that Dondozo is still so healthy.
It looks like the Stone Edge always gonna go for the combination play.
He saves the Quagsire.
If the Shadow Ball knocks out Jin's loose to the energy,
this could be very good for him, but I think the Dottozo can't hold on here.
Dottozo does survive.
The energy is saved and Karbing re-hits the field.
This is another third time as Licky Licky has found himself down against his Karbing,
and Karbing is so happy to see it.
Farming up all of that energy, Licky Licky in a position.
Yes, he can go for that Shadow Ball,
but we know that Karbing is gonna be able to withstand it.
Shadow Ball really not gonna do much.
The name of the game for Jin's now is going to be Energy Management.
Ups for the rock slide, so he's clearly gonna try and go for a rock slide into a farm down.
I imagine David will be holding the final protect shield for the crab. No, he actually doesn't.
He puts up the protect shield here, and now the quagside is exposed to the energy from that Don Gozzo.
Yeah, rock slide is ready, but once again, Licky Licky gets to this Shadow Ball.
The rollout, really again, not doing too much damage, but the Shadow Ball's putting in a bit of work.
Shadow Ball is gonna connect, switch timers up, quagside gets brought in here.
Oh, it's a charge step, priority tie! He locks it in!
That energy is going to be lost.
Does AquaTill take the knockout? It's super effective,
but Karving is very bulky.
AquaTill connects, Karving does survive,
and the Moon Blast is going to land.
I'm sorry, really, for Jhinz there.
Being able to retaliate with that charge attack,
all the energy had been stored up,
and it will be able to connect
onto the opposing Quaxxire here.
Does take it down into the red,
but Quaxxire able to, I think,
to get one more fast attack here
as Trondoso rejoins the field.
And he clicks a Surf.
Surf does less than an outrage,
but I think it's going to be a little bit too much
for Licky. Licky could deal with it anyway.
surf on a Licky Licky is gonna land.
Licky Licky survives, but the waterfall after
should secure the knockout.
And that's gonna be a win for Jinz
as he still has that carving left alive in the back.
That carving was really dancing around there on the field,
constantly finding his mark down against the Licky Licky.
And then right there in the end game,
being able to unleash that moonblast.
I think things looked a little bit dicey for Jinz there though
when we had the charge type priority event.
And it looks like David may be talking to the judges here
about double checking to make sure
that everything works in that game.
there was a moment in that a zoom real fortress matchup where it looks like
there was maybe a bit of a delay in in a zoom real fast attack and I could be
what David is asking the judges about just to ensure was fortress supposed
to actually get that farmed out that can happen sometimes and it's a good reason
to check make sure our judges can be able to support our trainers and that's no
doubt what they will do is the match is indeed under review we of course will get
you an update as soon as we can but it gives us a little bit more time to step
back and look at this incredible matchup you are hyping up don dozo don dozo has
been great throughout the set but I want to talk more about carvings who didn't get the
opportunity to do that before coming into game 2. Talk to us, what is carving doing
in this matchup?
Carving is an incredibly efficient neutral answer to licky-licky. Carvings matchups are
exceedingly polarizing. Basically, if carving is in a neutral matchup, it's going to win
it. If carving is in a bad matchup, it's going to get destroyed. It's not really going to
be doing much of anything there. However, what it can do is by being able to shut down
his most future Pokemon, it was right here. Let's take a look at his humor. It sat there
on the screen for a second before doing that bubble. So the question is, because it sat
there, did it catch up in time? Was that bubble supposed to land before that bug bite?
That's what our wonderful judging team is going to have to try and figure out there.
Because had the Zoom world taken the knockout there, and then suddenly Quagsire is aligned
onto the carving, that's what carving does. Is it wins hard or loses hard? And that would
be catastrophic. There's no way out for the carving. And Licky Licky on D'Andozo is a
usual enough matchup that that probably would have been a pretty good spot to be in if you're David.
So David, notice that and it is going to be double checking here, but ideally Azumul should start
this bubble immediately and it sat there for a second and a couple bug bites landed there.
So it'll be interesting to see was it supposed to be a simul knockout. Was it enough bug bites to
where the Azumul actually should have survived because if that switch advantage flipped because
of the Azumul just sitting there for a second, that's actually very game impacting.
It can really swing the momentum if one Pokemon goes down and we've seen how many times time again having a charge attack ready
And even if you're on one HP that dream is still very much alive and it keeps you in contention
So it's always interesting seeing the fast attacks really slowed down a little bit as well
But that's exactly what our judges need to do to be able to get the valuable information to make the right calls
And that game it honestly was a game of interest there where David was desperately trying to play around that battle line
It consistently banking energy do you think of the time worth go after combination plays you could see the idea
He went for the combination play there with the shadow ball.
He ended up unfortunately not taking the knockout there.
The awkward deal didn't knock out either.
So he really tried his best to kind of dance around
and play it as flexibly as possible.
And it looks like the judges have confirmed
that Jins did end up winning that game number two.
Exactly. So we will once again be going to a game three.
Really great to be able to see the way these trainers were
adapting with the water types of choice.
We talked a lot about the quags.
I talked a lot about the John Dozo.
But PvP David really utilizing the zoomer well
the team as well. Having that
play rough and particularly the
hydro pump that was not
necessarily an option I was
expecting a zoomer all to have
coming into this tournament,
but the pressure that it can
relent is really impressive.
That hydro pump honestly made
that fortress match up very
awkward. It's normally the bug
by fortress even bug by due to
the very sub typing is very,
very good, but it honestly was
very, very awkward matchup
there and even with the sand
to debuffing the defense into
the Rocking that still could
not knock out that pumpkin
zoomer all. I think now coming
had a very rough game one, making the wrong decisions on some of those bait shields, for example,
but had to regroup and then came in victorious in game two.
PvP day, but now possibly in that end game situation, knowing the match was within clutching distance,
maybe thinking was there an opportunity there with the bubble.
Now again, has to reset the board's date, has to come in with a keen slate and approach this game three with composure.
Both of these trainers, veterans of the competition, know that they can do it.
How is game three going to unfold?
One of them wants to stay undefeated in the tournament.
The other one will have to drop down to the losers bracket.
This is the biggest match that they've played so far today.
Staying on that Winner's Side of the Bracket,
your day is a lot easier.
This is for a top eight at Worlds.
And it looks like the battlers,
we have double lock-ins here.
Game number three, David versus Jyns.
It's gonna be Licky-Licky into the shadow.
Pidgeot, that's what David was hoping to see.
Pidgeot is back and it has to face down against these rollouts.
There's gonna be Trunner knocking from the sky
from this Licky-Licky to Super Effective Damage
coming through, but the Pidgeot staying in play right now
to farm up as much energy as it can.
And Licky Licky is going to strike first with the Body Slam.
Body Slam doesn't really threaten the Pidgeon right away,
but the game for Licky Licky is just getting a lot of damage
over time.
Body Slam connects, Pidgeon can survive,
and Licky Licky already has one more roll out.
It's at another Body Slam, and that will start to pressure
away the shields from Jinx.
Yeah, one shield coming up.
Pidgeon wants to be able to utilize the energy that has got
stored at the moment on those charge attacks.
It's got to the two air cutters.
It's almost at the second heat wave as well,
but tries to go on at the offensive here.
Licky, Licky is a little bit more vulnerable,
but it has the potential to go for that shield
and keep itself nice and safe.
David will invest a protect shield here.
David is gonna throw the body slam.
Jin's now at the back to back.
What it all comes down to is,
this shielded body slam will do one hit point advantage.
If Jin stores on alignment,
one more roll level will sneak through.
Will the roll out that sneak through take the knockout?
Jin's opts to go for the heat wave, but David lets it go.
He tries to no shield an air gutter.
He wave is a more powerful move,
and that is gonna cause Licky Licky to fall.
He wave can indeed be devastating
and that gets a solid KO onto the Licky Licky.
You now have the Azumaril in play going for the bubbles,
trying to farm down this opposing Pidgeot,
but Pidgeot had so much energy for days,
it is gonna be able to release the air-cutter
onto Azumaril.
A nice call from Jinz to go for the He Wave.
That final guth will not land,
it's a three-turn bubble, takes the knockout.
And Jinz will bring in Corsola.
This is a match for having Hydro Pump again on Azumaril,
will be very beneficial,
but with Azumaril already having taken some chip damage,
can Jinz potentially astonish this
to arrange for a double night shield to threat the protect shield.
We've seen this before with the
Astonishes getting yourself up to the two charge attacks, just being able to have back to back.
31 shield remaining on PvP David's side.
So if you're able to drop that, then you know that the Pokemon on the opposing side are more vulnerable.
Here comes the first night shield, but PvP David not often shield.
David is going to let it go. Will immediately be able to tell.
Looks like Azul will may barely be able to hold on here.
It's going to be exceedingly, exceedingly close.
Can Azul survive? David's not going to risk it.
He will invest protection, but this sets up the zero shields for Tontozo, a Pokemon that is notorious for liking the zero shield matchup.
In comes Tontozo, the play rough comes through, and this is looking very difficult for David.
The play rough will put in a little bit of work into reasoning after Tontozo, but of course as you said, Tontozo are happy to just waterfall for days,
particularly seeing the quacks that are onto the field as well.
It can go for those serfs, it can just start whittling away at the opposing side, not having to worry about the stone edges that come through in retaliation.
What David needs to happen here is he needs a stone edge plus an upper tail to take the knockout
But from a non-shadow glad sir. I don't know if glad sir has enough damage output to do so here
We go the stone edge. This is never gonna take the knockout
But will it put it into one much shot plus awkward tail range? It's gonna do its best for sure
The stone edge comes through we've got that one much shot
Is this going to be enough the aqua tail in order to keep PvP David into the game here?
It's going to have to connect and get the knockout, but is Dondozo in play? Dondozo still on the field!
Dondozo 2, bulky, it survives. 1 HP and a dream. Surf connects.
Flapsire falls, and now it's a zoom reel versus the World.
Poor Zoomer on such an uphill battle for it to climb. You do have to call Slam Play, however, and it's very energy-dry.
He gets there. Oh my goodness! A zoom reel! It survives!
Jinz can't believe it! PVP David!
He pulls, I don't even know how he found that win card.
It knocks out, David celebrates.
He's on to winners round two.
Oh my goodness, that end game situation.
I forgot how little energy was on that course.
I was expecting it to come in and just go for a nightshade
and that would wrap up the game.
But PVP David in that Zoom world,
right down to the wire, incredible play,
a phenomenal match.
What a thriller to enjoy.
Once Ston Dozo survived, if Jinz had instantly pitted it into the Corsula,
the Azumral basically got a bubble for free, because Waterfall does almost no damage there.
Jinz was so far ahead in that endgame, but by staying in, giving Azumral one bubble of energy,
which is 11 energy, but basically taking no damage, that's what then enabled him to get there.
Had the Corsula been instantly switched in, then the Corsula may have actually got the Astonish down,
or at the very least, I think the worst case for Jinz would be a tie,
but I'm pretty confident that Jinx could have actually farmed down.
I think what was amazing is those increments of damage,
those one HP and adrens, it's a phrase for a reason
because Dondozo was trying his best to live it,
but Azumaril just able to pace so,
I don't want to say quickly, but efficiently, let's say,
to the damage that it needed to get rid of this Cursor.
But even then, Cursor was so bulky,
it can make things really difficult.
But my goodness there.
David, it honestly felt like he thought that all was lost,
but he gets the play rough, it takes the knockout
and you can see the celebration there,
and he earned it. That matchup was a nightmare.
How do you deal with the carving?
There's a Shadow Pidgeon.
That's true.
There's a Dottozo.
There's a Shadow Bugway Fortress.
It felt like Jyn said so many safe mons that he could run.
And for David, he kind of just was having
to play defensive constantly.
But he was able to find a way.
That's why we play the games.
The team advantage, it can favor one player,
but it got to actually win those two incredibly well
played by David.
And he escapes, and he's moving on.
I believe he is going to be a winners round, two of them later on today, playing against
an ME Weedle.
Oh my goodness, that's another incredible European showdown to Beholds and make sure
you put that one in your diary for later.
You do not want to miss any of the action.
That was honestly such a masterclass to Behold.
If I could tailor a perfect script, that would be exactly what I would be looking for.
Such incredible plays on both sides of the field, the energy management, the adaptations
as well.
And it's a beautiful showcase of one of your cast predictions in the form of Dondozo
as well.
Even though it wasn't the victor at the end, I think it's still putting in a lot of work.
It showed its power. That one HP survived right there.
The bulk of Dantozo is just absolutely absurd.
But the action is only getting better here.
Coming up right after the break, we are going to have Marto Galde,
a fan favorite against King OWT.
Stay tuned, because Marto also has Dantozo.
Marto Galde, one of the most accomplished players in the world.
I started in competitive Pokemon in 2018 when PBB was first introduced.
I started playing with my friend and then some grassroots tournaments.
So my start of Pokemon is groovy even though I haven't played the Galar games.
Reminds me of myself of it, so I just love it.
My earliest memory was when I went to a tournament just to get a meltdown box
and my friends convinced me to play the tournament
and after that it was just emotion and getting excited for battles.
I couldn't stop.
I think I've learned to be composed. I think I have a lot of experience in the stage, so that generally is an advantage against my opponents.
Going to the event, I had a team that I felt kind of comfortable with. It has some holes and some weaknesses,
but me knowing those weaknesses made the opponents seem more predictable. I think that was the most important key aspect.
The thing I want to improve the most right now is to predict what my opponent is running and what should I do,
what should I do, because sometimes you need to bait out something or you need to play
a certain strategy and I feel like I couldn't prop that.
Due to the magnitude of the tournament being international, Finals had a bit more pressure.
I started getting nervous and played a bit less confident than I generally do.
Every year I think it's harder to win in Pokemon Go.
Everyone is improving so the competition is getting more fierce and that's why I feel
like I have less chances to win.
This venus was pretty rough and I thought I was going to lose at the end.
My summer will survive that with very low HP, but at the end I was crazy.
It looks like I still have it.
If Moro has just reached a two-barrel status, he might be the greatest of all time!
I think this is the world I never expected to win it.
It feels surreal.
This win is very important because I sometimes down myself, so this helps me a lot.
It has been a crazy season, it doesn't make sense.
This is the third time I have qualified to Worlds this season and I think we're only like two months in.
When I qualified to the Grand Finals, I started crying and I threw myself into the floor and it's a moment I will never forget.
I think the most epic finalist to face in Worlds would be Jekai.
Jekai sent me to the Losers bracket right at the end of Worlds. I think I kind of choked in the last game.
I could have won that game and I'm still a bit sad about that. That would be epic to have their revenge.
It's always very fun and very fierce and also I want to go to Disney.
Mato Gordes, your 20-25 chance at America!
He's your special champion!
Welcome to the stage, your Pokemon Go finalists!
Your champion from Spain, Mato Gordes!
My name is Flio, my name from Spain.
I will be the other type because it's the type that is the Pokemon Scythe, which is my representative Pokemon.
My first time competing was in Liverpool, 2023, where my dad came with me to Liverpool and I also got second place.
And then I won the Grand Regional, I would love to repeat that and win the next World Championship.
I didn't have a gold medal, but I had a couple trophies, which was the EYC one, so I'm really
proud of that.
It was like a really fun experience because also the final was against a really good friend
of mine with his C-Shyles and I actually lost a final against him in Barcelona in my home
city so I'm really proud of that and I think it's a really memorable moment.
Basquely, my team has Fuisopold which is a really good platform for this meta so I think
my team is really fun to play.
Three ball flex from Potomac, he is so on point.
So if I had to say an MVP for this weekend,
I would say it was Corsola.
I didn't like that it was tight for this meta.
He did really help me to get this far in the tournament.
Yeah, actually I was really worried about the Maltreys
and I had to face a Maltreys in the grand finals
so that it wasn't really good for me.
And then maybe Cisor, because I didn't have a real response.
But I think that's all because my team, I think it was really safe into a meta.
Execution is just on another level.
So the world final was the most difficult map that I have discreetly.
Because of the Maltres, and also, Bessebo is a little failure.
So I had to play around that, but so his administrative did really good bench pressure.
Because the counters to the Maltres, which are not really counters,
got really obeyed by the Selvaniculate.
So I had to manage those two and also Steelyx and Lapras,
which were really good to my team.
And I think I don't really have that much of a play aspect.
We're here to kick it off for the Grand Finals of Pompamakka!
I feel good, but also maybe not disappointed.
feeling that I could have done more, but still I'm really proud of myself and happy with
this tournament.
My most memorable moment on this weekend was Saturday when I qualified to the World Finals
in the Wings bracket because I feel like I have all the momentum I needed and everyone
supported me really for the move to be in World Cup for the next week.
I think it's like the law fighter for Pokemon, because I would like to say it again, also the community, the fun is the players that always support me, also I'm on mine and I appreciate a lot, so that will be the main reason why I keep covering for this event.
You have to be completely confident and never give up, that's the way you hope that you're doing.
That's what I want to do for the next season.
It takes love. It takes heart. It takes passion.
And then sometimes there's pain, but competitive Pokemon Go is unlike any other esport in the
world and we can't wait to continue our coverage of day number two at the World Championships
here in San Francisco.
I'm Stadium's Chief with Amanda Lumberg.
That's right.
We are narrowing down the field day by day.
We start out with all of the world's competitors, but by the end of today, there will only be
two playing in that chase arena to see who will be the 2026 World Champion.
much on the line today. We're going to continue to move through that winter side bracket. But
if you're a big fan of trainers like Potomac that did fall to the loser side, we will show
a lot of loser side matches as we conclude the day later on. So make sure hit that follow
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Don't worry, we have still so many more to go.
We are on that winner's side of the bracket,
just giving a quick refresher here
of some of the games we've seen.
This is the top 16 of the winner's side of the bracket.
So that means who won the first round
will continue into the top eight of the winner's side.
But we still have a whole loser's side
to go through as well.
I'm so grateful you mentioned that, Amanda.
Yeah, we have this graphic on screen.
We're gonna update that loser's side bracket as it unfolds.
But from where we're standing, from our vantage point,
It's kind of hard to read these names.
There's a lot of players on the screen.
Let us know who you hope will make their way up
to that grand finals later on today.
But I just got word from production.
Tim says the players are ready.
Let's go down to the stage, everybody,
and see what we have in store.
It's going to be, whoa, we're already into it.
Marto versus King OWT.
Let's see how this unfolds.
All right, we got that Kanto Ninetales up against the King
Here both looking like they're gonna be throwing now energy ball coming through. No protection used on the side of King
Oh, WT kind of blows his hand up like maybe I should have King dress such a unique kick and if this dragon tight matchup is
Generally unfavorable for the King dress especially at this health range. He's gonna go and throw that swift
I think King of WT can swap out and he chooses to do so going ahead preserving a little bit of that help
They're coming in with the hero here Pokemon that is a not just I have a lot of both to its name
Water trainers like to use some shields on it, but will King OWT want to use it?
That's exactly what he does. Well, he just gains a ton of energy already at a drill pet of his own.
Yeah, not a ton of bulk, but that 10 turn pacing to both of his charge attacks is absolutely lethal.
Here comes another drill pet, and this is going to KO Mark Drogalde's Altaria,
which has been such a unique pick so far this weekend.
He's going to have to rely on his other two Pokemon to close out this game.
Altaria falls from the sky, can't deny, just comes back in and now going for that heavier hitting throw.
this will do, that's a corner
damage, Marta throws up his
first protect shield as well,
wants to try to keep this 9
tiles healthy because this is
an energy game at this point.
You can see Marta doing the
mental math, he knew that he
was going to have trouble out
pacing and then this swap here
from King OWT throws another
wrench into his plans, very
tough for Marta to come back
from that.
Worse for the wear there, keep
in mind that Thiero does have
quite a bit of energy, not a
lot of health left but you can
see King OWT waiting on that
switch time before coming in
coming in, throwing another drill run.
Will it take that second protection?
Absolutely, as Marto shakes his head.
This is wildly uncomfortable for the trainer from Argentina,
because the drill runs are not going to stop coming.
Every 10 turns, another one's going to fire off.
Going to have to go with the weather ball here
to try to break up that pattern and bring down the furore.
Great timing there by Marto.
Doesn't even want to get any more.
And King OWD's shielding this up could give an indication
to Marto of what's in the back catching a brilliant drill
but they're onto the Ticket Tone, keeping himself in this matchup.
I take it back.
Drew Peck, what a surprise.
Marto actually caught some resisted damage on the Ticket Tone,
and that keeps him in this matchup.
But this Hesuin Electrode's typing
is so tough for the Ticket Tone to overcome.
Going ahead, just both of them charging up energy now.
Energy ball would be the attack that
doesn't lower the defenses of that Hesuin Electrode.
No protection remaining.
Jemana, it's going to go through.
The hammer is thrown!
I think that Marto probably needs to get an ember down on this Assuming Electro in order
to win the battle and King of WT is going to debuff himself the Wild Charge here.
He's got to manage his HP perfectly.
Going ahead throwing a second attack, but first going for the Wild Charge which lowers
your own defense when you throw it.
Now going for an energy ball just to have enough to knock out, but there's still quite
a bit of health and now no energy really on the Assuming Electro.
It's all going to come down to timing here and trying to catch here on the bureau.
Marto throws anyway.
Massive absolutely massive to get those embers. That's the energy. Marto needed for the weather ball fire bringing down the Firo
electrodes batteries running low
Get to the wild charge you see King
Oh, WT can't even believe it while charge energy is met
Ninetales is knocked out and this is Marto Goddus first loss at Worlds
You can tell that these trainers minds are probably somewhere else right now
Looks like Marto wasn't that shocked at that loss
maybe there was something on earlier on in the game that he thought maybe wasn't quite right. So
we're gonna see what our trainers decide on stage. Man, what a game one to start. We jumped right
into that. Talking about these players, we jumped right into the battle. So let's go ahead and give
you guys at home a little bit of information about these two trainers that we have on stage. On that
left-hand side, we do have Marto Galdez. If you were paying attention during that short break,
We had a nice little interview with him when he was going over his whole championship run this season.
Now, he had said earlier yesterday that he didn't get a first place finish, which he was really hoping for,
but he did come very close at LAIC, and we have to remember he was also in the top four of Worlds previously.
Marta was one of the only trainers at the LAIC Limited Meta format to run Vespiquen on his team.
He got all the way up to third place, as you called out Amanda.
And during his interview, I remember this quote stuck with me.
He says, I think I could have won.
If I just would have executed a little bit better, I think I had an opportunity to do that.
So, Marto is a trainer that in hindsight will look back at his plays and he'll say,
you know what, maybe I could improve on this.
Maybe I could think about this match up a little differently or maybe execute a bit better.
He reflects on that a lot.
I think that's something that's very valuable as you try to be self critical,
but not overly so, and try to improve as you move to the season.
And King OWT on the other hand is a trainer coming from the UK.
Hasn't played so many tournaments this season, but what he has done has been extremely impressive.
He got fifth place overall in Frankfurt.
He was 17th in Birmingham, and he was also in the top 10 there at EUIC.
To give everyone an update at home, our review right now is in regards,
I believe to the Altaria Dragon Breaths, but right now on the screen, we do have the Kanto Ninetales versus the Fero.
And remember, this was that flurry of drill runs that the Fero is throwing.
Marks are right there. You can see the head shake, you can see the reaction.
Maybe just visually, that didn't look exactly how he hoped it would.
Yeah, we'll have to see. As you can see, the judges are reviewing it.
And indeed, that moment there between that Ninetales and the Fero.
Thank you so much for production, getting that up on screen so everyone can see kind of what the dispute in the match review is about.
I'm telling you Pokemon go is so fast a turn is just a half second and these trainers know if they swap in or swap out
If they're a little bit late, they just have this instinct for it
Maybe right there three embers and I think Marto thought he should have gotten four
Maybe that is it's the playing question
I mean put up a protect shield there slowing it down
Ultra slow so we can see what is going on we see one two and going for that drill run as the next one goes through
If everyone is enjoying these slow motion replays where we can actually break down this footage and analyze it
Let's get a shout out in the chat to Chucky who's running our replay today does a fantastic job
Getting that that like microscopic look right game is so fast
It can be easy to miss a lot of these small details
But those slow motion replays make a world of difference especially for our viewers at home
This is something also sort of interesting
We had so many players playing in day one champions who are coming from all over the globe from impact region
from Latam, from North America, and from Europe.
And we didn't even get a chance to see all of the people
who were playing on the winners or losers side of the bracket.
So today, we're going to see a lot more matches.
And I think that's going to be really exciting,
because that's going to really get the storylines going through
to see who is going to be playing on Sunday, which there will only
be two we will be doing the grand finals in that chase arena.
You know, whenever we get to day two of the World Championships,
I think a regional rivalry kind of bubbles out of our fans.
And I think looking at that top cut, a lot of trainers were saying,
oh, well, you know, which region has the most,
which region has the most trainers that have qualified for day number two?
I think Japan alone had eight trainers in our top 32, which is absolutely
outstanding. I saw a post on socials that said Japan is playing a completely
different version of Pokemon go because they are just that good.
I was talking to some of the trainers as well.
I heard that one of the Japanese trainers actually had a registration error.
So they had to play with five Pokemon.
Like Elter did previously in a different world championship.
So five Pokemon, he told his opponent,
the opponent read his lines correctly,
knowing exactly when he was going to lead,
what he was going to swap and what he was going to end with,
and he's still lost to absolutely no way.
Japan is just playing out of their mind.
I'm sure that they are very, very happy
to be having a larger representation here at Worlds
as the top 33 trainers from one of their tournaments
were able to be able to play here
here at the World Championship in San Francisco.
Wow. Zooming back into the match on stream right now.
It's important to remember that the Kanto 9 tails
only needs eight turns, which is four embers
for each of the weather balls.
Whereas we mentioned before,
the Fero needs 10 turns or five pecs
for each of its charge attacks.
So we're talking about just a one second differential, really.
But when you have Pokemon that are that lightweight
and are dealing so much damage back and forth
to each other, just missing out on a single ember
just destroys the pacing for something like the Shadow Kanto 9 Tales in that matchup.
So I can see why this is a very important part of the game to focus on and to try to get right.
Because it is a critical moment. I mean, this was late in the game,
and whoever controls the Furo vs Kanto 9 Tales matchup ultimately controlled the game.
Not only that, you have to think about the fact that these two trainers are on that winner's side of the bracket.
And of course, if you are not losing any matchups, if you are someone like Mardo,
who hasn't lost a single battle so far at Worlds,
You don't want that to end on a potential technicality.
So I think that these right to go ahead and raise review,
that's what we have those wonderful judges and staff for.
Thank you so much for taking their time to do this.
But in the meantime, lifter also remember,
this is a double elimination tournament.
So the losers of this best of three
will be dropped down to that loser's side of the bracket.
They're not out wide yet.
I want to emphasize as well that this is the world championships,
obviously the biggest tournament of the entire year.
everyone's watching, lots of eyeballs on this event, but even if you're at a local event,
even if you're at a regional event, if you have a situation like this where you feel like maybe
something went awry with the battle itself, you can talk with the judges. I don't want anyone to
feel like they're inconveniencing anybody or that they're being a problem or being confrontational
because this is a very, very important part of competitive integrity. And if the judge that
you speak with maybe doesn't agree, it doesn't see the issue the way that you would describe,
You can also escalate that to a head judge as well.
So we want the best for our players.
We want a fair competitive environment, no matter what.
I just want everyone to feel comfortable,
whether, again, you're at your local card shop, regional,
or at the world championships.
So keep in mind, this is also the first game
between these two trainers.
They're both from different regions,
so I actually don't know how many opportunities
they've had to play against each other before.
A lot of times trainers already use that game one
as a bit of a fact-finding mission.
trying to figure out how your opponent likes to play.
Are they someone who's going to go for a bait?
Are they someone who's going to try to conserve energy or shields?
So regardless of however this match turns out,
whether it is going to be in favor of team OWT
or if it's going to be a rematch,
both of these trainers are already
gathering some valuable information.
Oh, exactly.
And the line reads are so important.
Once you see that first set of three Pokemon,
you've got a good idea of what your opponent was thinking
game plan-wise, allows you to make some additional adjustments.
Amanda, it looks like we're at 0-0.
you know what that means.
The what the it's been a wipe clean here that match didn't happen.
And now we're going into a fresh game one here of winners round one
between Marto Galde and King OWT.
All right.
So we jump right into it.
Maybe now we could kind of settle in and get our popcorn and get our snacks
and get ready for an epic series between these two trainers.
Marto played, I believe, Altaria, Shadow Kento Ninetales and the Tinketon.
Meanwhile, King OWT, Shadow Kingdra, as well as the Hissuyen Electrode
and the Fero.
So going into this actual game number one,
what are you thinking at that?
Well, there's a lot of different things
that people can do.
We also have to remember that since they already played,
once they kind of have an idea
of what their opponent wanted to do for game number one,
the real question is,
are they sticking to that original plan
since those games were so incredibly close,
or are they gonna do something completely different
now that they see what their opponent
had brought that first time?
Absolutely, just to confirm,
We are headed into a fresh game.
Let's go ahead and get started, everybody.
This is the real start to the series.
We're gonna see the Kanto Nightsails for Marto.
Right, head first into that ticket time.
Great lead for Marto Galli, his recent key in OWT.
Shake his head.
Now it goes for one swing of the handle
before going out into that Fero.
But the weather ball is primed and ready to go.
And King OWT looks like he is going to let that one
go through on the Fero.
Charge attack, mini game, takes about 10 seconds
to complete.
Marto not wanting to displace the switch timers too heavily
because he really did like that nine tails versus think it's on matchup fires
above the ball goes straight into licky licky since that weather ball did
connect it already brought that fear of quite low licky licky coming in now that
roll out damage is going to be quite a bit and Marco throws that body slam which
is going to be enough to take the fear of out of the sky as King O W D does not
use a protection here and it looks like he's not also going to be able to get
that alignment that he was looking for as the ticket comes back in now but just
maybe getting a lot more energy before now facing that nine tails.
You're exactly right. Safe, comfortable, maintains control, search advantage.
Martus got so much health on the Licky-Licky still.
It is nowhere near a fairy wind down.
It is nowhere near a bulldoze and fairy wind down.
He's gonna force King of the RWT to throw a boatload of energy to KOM.
Going ahead, throwing that Gigaton hammer.
Definitely enough to knock out the Licky-Licky at this stage,
but we saw the beginning of this matchup.
We know exactly what's coming in,
and you can see King of the RWT immediately swapping for the King of the...
And now it's a duel of the dragons.
Swift versus Sky Attack.
Swift is going to be a lot faster than that Sky Attack
from the Altaria, but the bulk is also a major factor here
because the Altaria is able to withstand that damage,
keep on Dragon Breathing,
and I think it's going to win it down
that Kingdra over time.
Sky Attack coming through.
Now Dragon Breath used to do more damage as a faster attack.
Nowadays, it's really the pacing
that makes it such a good attack for these Dragon Camp.
As you can see, Kingdra already at number,
so going a little bit over,
and this should be enough.
Margeau-Ralde still has two protect shields left.
To his name, doesn't want to protect up the Salteria.
No, he can tend to let it go.
Putting it all on the back of that Ninetales
that we saw at the very beginning of the matchup.
Little head shake there.
Maybe not pleased with that decision in the moment,
but he's got to make the best of it.
Margeau-Ralde uses his first protect shield
of the game on the Swift versus the Shadow King Drive.
King Drive just going ahead and putting that out here,
but there's a lot of energy now on this canton Ninetales.
Throwing that first marble,
actually getting the protect shield off of King Delverty.
We know that the Tinkerton does not want to see the Ninetales.
It does not want to take a weather ball at all.
And now we are out of shields.
Wow, good timing there for Marto to overcharge the energy.
He's going to undercharge this charge attack
and look for a big ember down.
But you saw King Odovc look up to the sky
doing the mental math trying to figure out where
that Ninetales was.
What the bulldoze is ready?
Seems a little bit dangerous to do so if you're a Marto,
not maybe keeping complete track of where the Tinkerton was at
and not shielding up the bulldoze.
It is super effective. It takes that Ninetales down so low
and they simultaneously KO with the Kingdra in the back.
King OWT taking game number one.
What a close end game between these two trainers.
The Kingdra, so potent for King OWT,
was able to reign in not only that Altaria,
but also that Kanto Ninetales put an insane end game there
as he was able to connect the bulldoze
and eventually win the battle.
And I gotta tell you, man, I gotta be honest,
A big part of that was the fact that Kingdra is going to win the cap tie over Cancer Ninetales.
The Pokemon with that higher attack is going to be able to throw first.
It is going to be that Kingdra.
I think Martel Galde knew it at that point when the Tinkertime threw off a charge attack,
recognizing there's not really anything I can do.
I only have one shield left and there are two attacks basically ready to go.
And the error right there might have been the undercharge.
It's really hard to say because he still needed a bit of energy.
maybe just a little bit more on the fire weather ball,
one ember for the KO on the ticket time,
and then he'd be able to shield up the Kingdra
and get to the next charge tech he needed.
So it was actually insanely close.
It was very close there
between these two super talented trainers.
We said it before the match review,
but I guess we can officially say it now,
this is Marto Galdes' first game loss
of the World Championships,
which is actually an incredible feat.
When you think about how many of these fierce competitors
he has had to play again so far.
Keep in mind, right?
King of WT has already shown two of his teams
and in that game one, he just led Tinkitun
into Kanto Ninetales and ended up the victor.
I know a lot of trainers that Q and to go battle league,
maybe they lead in Altaria to a Vasidon
and they swap something like a Swamper
and there's a Razor League victory bell
and they say, you know what, GGs, I'll top left.
But in the world championships,
you fight it out until the very end
and King of WT reap the rewards of his persistence.
So I think that that's actually a good point over all to make just because you might be, uh,
what you think is down, you should never give up because it can still go down to the slimmest of margins there.
In order to also running a Malamon, seem a lot of trainers from that winners side of the bracket has chosen that Pokemon to be on their team of six.
We just saw boom 20 and PvP David playing with that on that winner side previously.
David's still staying on that
winter side of the bracket and boom,
knocked down to the lower side.
Here we go everybody.
Game two between Marto Gallade and
King OWT and nod for King OWT.
He likes this lead quite a bit.
Take a ton. Again,
going to struggle against the Hussuin
electrode and it's got to fear those
wild charges too.
Wild charges are going to hit heavy,
but they have to remember that you can
lower your own defenses after the
wild charge is thrown.
So if you do something like this,
which I believe is a charge attack
by already tied. King OWT will have to shield up the electrode or else it would do a ton of damage to it.
Yeah, exactly. I mean this gigaton hammer would come down like a pile of bricks on that weakened Hussuin electrode.
The question now becomes does King OWT look for a swap? No, straight into the second wild charge.
So much energy actually gets that first protect shield off of Marko Galday as well.
Doesn't want that king of time to get knocked out. Perhaps wants to get another shield off of the electrode
or force the Electro to swap out as the next Gigaton Hammer goes through, does King OWT want to let that go down,
or is he going too shelds down in that first part of the matchup? That's exactly what he does.
Wow, doubling down the Hussuin Electro, but he's probably going to bail it out before the Bulldoze is ready to make the swap here.
No, he goes on the captie again. Another wild charge. This is wild charge number three.
This is interesting. If Magro shields us up, he is at the Bulldoze, and this would be enough with its double debuff to knock out the Hussuin Electro, even at the Bulldoze.
So both of these trainers are now going to be completely out of shields for whatever comes in.
And now the Kinkakun is so low, it could be a potential farm for the Spear who gets energy so, so quickly.
This is awful, but Marta knows he can't afford to swap into the Ninetales or the Altaria
because he gives away control that he fought so hard to gain in the opening matchup.
Both of those might trigger a defense ball. Does he get it? Yes.
Wow, you heard the sounds. You saw those little sprinkles and now comes the Ninetales.
I think he's very wary of a catch, but it's a base to charge attacks on that hero and pops out of the matchup.
There's also a ton of energy on that canton nine tails here, but now we're talking about the Kingdra and Altaria as a swift number one goes through.
That was so terrifying. Could have fired the draw run at any second, but Mark Toad didn't blink.
Gonna go for the sky attack against the Kingdra. I don't think this is quite enough.
He might need a couple more Dragon Breasts afterwards, but Altaria will win this matchup.
Going ahead and just getting that King of Soul,
going not able to get to another attack.
Yes, there are two loaded on this Fero.
Doesn't want to waste any time here
as the first one is thrown.
Fero also has a very high attack stat,
higher than that Nine Tails.
There is still a drill run loaded
and it's immediately deployed.
Can Canto Nine Tails hang on to this super effective drill run
for one of the most attack-weighted Pokemon
in the entire Medicaid?
It does!
Heavy damage, but the question is,
Is this weather ball enough to knock out the Fero?
This is going to be so incredibly close,
as this goes through, knocks them down to about the similar HP.
And that's fast attacks alone.
Marto Gull, they're taking game number two.
Ember sizzles, and that is a win on the board for Marto,
tying up the series in a very high stakes matchup.
This is winners round one of day number two,
and these competitors put a lot of pressure on themselves.
But you want to start off day two with a win
if you can manage it.
Oh, boy, of course you want to start it.
I think all the trainers want to not only start out with the win,
I think they'd like to end with the win and have wins throughout the entire time,
makes the game play a little bit more simple.
Just win, right? That's easy.
Just go 2-0, everybody.
Yeah, come on. Like it's hard.
A nice zoom in here on Marto's team.
A Pokemon we have not seen at all in this series.
Well, actually, two.
The Dondozo and the Shadow Saberli.
Two of the more unique picks on this squad.
And the drain punch is such a fascinating tech on the Saber-Lie as well.
Giving you a little bit of fighting type pressure to fight back against Pokemon like Licky Licky,
or the occasional Duns Fars.
I mean, I tell you what, I don't doubt the reason why those Pokemon are on the bench.
We've seen King OWT playing the Obsuering Electrode,
which Dundos would definitely struggle against.
But Saber-Lie, of course, still has Shadowclaw as its fast stack,
doesn't want to face off against Sapphero, or even that potential Malumar.
Exactly. Not a lot of room to maneuver.
That's the beauty of show six pick three. We kind of pick the tools you need for the opponent that you are facing
Going into game number three. I mean I was freaking out
But I don't think Marta was worried at all that his night tales would hang on and then the ember
Maybe it was a little surprised there, but that's uh, you got to respect the pop-off
Yeah, of course
You always like to see players get excited about the great gameplay that they are doing looks like both of these trainers are
Getting locked in for this decisive game number three winner of this matchup stays in the winner side of the breakfast
to the Winner's Top 8. Let's see, we have a similar to game number two. We have that
Tinkton in the lead against Hissui in the left field again. We'll have to see if these
trainers want to play it out a little bit differently as we take a peek at their back
lines. I think if I'm not mistaken, this is the first time we haven't seen the Kanto
Ninetales from Marto. This time he's opting for the Licky Licky and Altaria back line.
We saw this matchup earlier on, but the shield initially from Marto in this game number three.
This changes things up a little bit overall going ahead now. Actually, King OWT opting
for double Wild Church, and Marto ended up shielding the first one. Now this
electric is super weak and the Ticket Tone still has a ton of energy, so we
have to see if the OWT wants to get this electric out of there or put up
protect shields like he did game one. Look at that, no protection, and down it goes!
Wow, opting for the protect shield advantage, in comes the Fero, and there
are so many reasons to be scared, Marto needs to try to even this up. Bulldoze,
fate pulls the shield! Wow, it feels horrible if you're King OWT, the worst
would be if he gets a defense job will have to listen looks like he did get that as well a
punishing thing for going for a shield there I like this play but you know they keep going
for the drill pack at this range it's enough to knock out the ticket ton and Marto puts
up a shield so he has a little bit more energy and if anything swapped into that that have
been okay the bait is all the difference right no way this is diabolical this is unimaginable
both shields on bulldoze how deflating is that and Marto continues to farm can he even reach
the hammer here. Wow gets it. Going ahead now. Great catch overall, but this Tinkerton has done
a ton of work for Martial Galday in this decisive game. Number three here. I'll tell you, coming
to the skies, you'll have to take an attack at this point. And it looks like he wanted to do,
maybe opting to go for a serpents and Martial staring down that camera saying, is this it?
Could this be it? I think he's just having a little bit of fun at this point.
Look into his eyes chat.
He knows he has all the leverage in this matchup.
Gonna lose the charge type party tied to the Fero
as expected, Drillpeck will likely bring this Altaria
down into the red, but it hangs on
and the Sky Attack gets fired back.
Soon, Electrode out of there immediately
by that Gigaton Hammer.
Two baits to get both of the shields.
Fero is down so low and the third Pokemon
isn't even revealed.
No shields, but three Pokemon left on the field.
Marco Galdi takes game number three.
Double bulldoze fate, digging himself out of a massive hole
against a talented trainer in King OWT.
And when the stage is this bright and the stakes are this high,
those things happen.
People make mistakes.
They're elite, but they're still people.
Wow, absolutely incredible matchups
and such high risky plays by Marco Galdi.
They're going for two not very effective attacks against a flying type Pokemon
But still managed to get both shields and defense drops. Wow
I mean, I think that luck was really on his side matched with the skill of him
OWT did everything he could but unfortunately will be knocked down to the loser's side of the bracket the
Ingenuity absolutely crazy engineering ways back into that game and my goodness even getting the giga ton hammer at the very end
and I was like, man, this ticket
ton is just unstoppable in the hands of
Marto Galvin and no Panto 9 tells
to be found in that game number three.
Put in such heavy work for
Marto in game two, but in this one,
this was the take a ton show here.
Going through getting full of protection.
Look how little of health it had to
to say I don't care.
I'm just going to keep swinging
this hammer. I'm going to work.
Exactly when your ticket on everything
looks like a nail and this ticket
ton brought down the hammer on
two different Pokemon, or excuse me,
three different Pokemon in order to really separate
Marko in this matchup.
King OWT had a great catch there on the Gigaton Hammer
on the Kingsman, but in the end,
he knew it was just too little, too late.
He saw the riding on the wall,
but still incredible plays from him
to be able to get into that winners' side
of the bracket round one,
taking a game off of Marko Galle to boot.
I mean, catching a Gigaton Hammer is like avoiding a puddle
and then stepping in a different puddle.
You know, like there's just no way
that that turns out good for most Trainers.
Even the Giganton Hammer versus the Mantine
does about 40% and it's so heavily resistant.
It's just an insane community day charge attack.
And this is a great time actually.
We're talking a lot about the Fairy Steel type Pokemon.
An excellent time to remind everyone
that the drops are a little bit different this year.
If you claim them, you don't get a Tinketon.
No, no, no.
You get Beelzevoiz Tinketon.
You get the Tinketon.
and the stats are identical.
So play like a world champ and watch games and train
like a world champ this weekend.
Not only that, there are going to be some other goodies
that you're going to get throughout by watching.
And one of these goodies you can see on the screen next
to Beelzeboot is an elite charge TM.
So if you are a trainer who maybe missed the community day
for a Pokemon that you really enjoy playing
and don't have that heavy hitting attack that you would like,
you can use that charge TM to get moves
that you can't get using a regular charge team.
Exactly, you can use on any Pokemon you like,
but that Gigaton Hammer is a good candidate
for the Ticket Ton.
And while we're here, let's talk about a couple other drops.
I know all of our tech savvy trainers
have multiple Twitch tabs open, and that was a mouthful.
And they are gathering these champions drops as well.
And not only do we have for the video game,
we also have them for the card game.
And the card game has quite a bundle of things
if you are watching that stream.
We'll go ahead and throw up the graphics here
because there's going to be some really nice things.
I know that there's also an avatar item,
there's going to be a t-shirt,
but there's also different card collections
that you can be able to enjoy.
No, exactly.
I mean, you get swag, you get Pokemon cards to play with,
and so much more.
There's a lot of text there on the screen,
and I don't have my binoculars,
so you're going to have to read that off of your TV phone
or computer screen wherever you might be.
So much fun stuff.
That's just free, it's literally free.
You just watch the channel, connect to your account,
and it's yours.
absolutely, but of course we are all tuned in for go and I know that you guys got to love it because these have been some very engaging, very fun matchups.
We're still on that winners side of the bracket. We started with the on the winners side that top 16 top 16 winners side and we're going to get right back into these battles shortly everybody.
I'm stoked to see the next pairing because we've got a trainer from Australia and another one from NA and the latter just barely made the cutoff to qualify for the World Championships.
I'm going to steal that stat from Caleb. I know he's talking about it backstage, but you know, if we're going to cast her, we might as well talk about it too.
Yeah, absolutely true. I managed to get the championship points needed to be able to qualify for the World Championships at North America International Championships in June.
So that was the very last potential opportunity to do so on that winter side of the bracket knocking people out left and right
And we have each shira gonna be taking on they love Jai and the question with that trainer is always
Are they gonna run a lowland nine tails the answer?
I believe is yes
But the real star of the team so far for that trainer has been the shadow Corbinite honestly man
I don't think I've seen a single other shadow Corbinite on any team this weekend shadow Corbinite has a lot of interesting
matchups and I know that if you're someone who is really well first, like they love Jai,
definitely knowing these matchups can be super helpful in this meta.
Carbonite overall, you would think that maybe he doesn't have the best matchup into Tinkerton,
one of the most used Pokemon in this meta. However, with using its fast attack,
it actually can start wearing it down quite quickly.
Exactly. So many different approaches for these Pokemon. You've got to keep all that in mind.
fast stack pressure, charge stack pressure and everything in between. This is a unique
squad from Day Love Jai, taking on that Shadow Milotic charge bug Pangoro squad from H-Shiro.
I'm telling you, world is so much fun because after NAIC, PJCS and Turin, these trainers just
put the lid on the pot for the next six weeks and they have been cooking. Absolutely true. And we
saw earlier on the top 12 usage of day one, that's probably getting shaken up quite a bit
for day number two as everything starts to settle because look at these not quite as many of the
really staple picks. I don't think we see that canter nine tails on either team with Day of
Dye opting for the Alolan nine tails instead. Exactly. We do have some licky likkies. You
might see a safe swap here or there because there are some hard answers. I mean, namely the
pangorel from H.Shiara, but if you're on pangorel, you have to contend with a Alolan nine tails,
a Altaria, a sideways lacris, as well as a Corviknight with air cutter. There's a couple of
obstacles there for that pair to Pokemon to overcome but let's go ahead and jump
into it everybody this is game number one they love Jai hailing from Australia and
Hsirah from NA. Going ahead to start in this match up here we have the water types up against
each other which might take a little bit to get to but they love Jai has stone edge on as a charge
attack so you know now that it needs to be a little bit more wary because that would do a
ton of damage we saw some baits last game this is a immediate bait right out of the gate here for
game on and H-Shira calls it! What an insane call to throw out this game. Yes it took a lot of guts
for Leila to try to do that but it takes even more for H-Shira to say no no no this is an awkward
tale and I'm not scared of that. Going ahead throwing the heavier hitting water pulse will need two
attacks regardless to be able to knock out and Jai says if you first don't succeed succeed try try
again get that first protect shield off H-Shira's side and now still has a little bit of energy
but it's just gonna go for that twister.
Yeah, it's here.
You don't see any emotion on her face.
She's completely dialed in here.
Knows the pacing is keeping track.
She can afford to give up that shield here
because the Mantine is still wreaking havoc.
Another charge attack this time.
It will be the Stone Edge.
Two Stone Edges going through
getting both protect shields from H-tier.
Great calls for her all the way through.
They're not shielding up the Operator,
shielding up both Stone Edges
and getting a full farm down on that Quagsire.
Die is up a shield,
but he is down energy as the Lapras comes in to start soaking it up I think a key
moves that differential here that is a skull bash Lapras Lapras will stay in
this matchup wants to build up energy sideways does a lot of neutral damage over
time but getting to the skull bash getting those hard-hitting neutral attacks
especially against other water type Pokemon is valuable so H0 is looking to
fire up excuse me they're just gonna fire off the skull bash here this was also
really smart of each year popping out with a mantis even though it had energy
recognizing it doesn't really go so far in the Lapras. She doesn't want to stop
swapping to the pangoril because then she would be completely switch locks and
Jai could have swapped out. Licky Licky is the top use Pokemon in the meta for a
reason. It's safe, it's bulky, and it is spammy. And those rollouts are dealings of
super effective damage. They let Jai continue to farm with the Lapras,
firing the side waves, and with the sparkling aria at the perfect moment.
Going ahead, this will be enough to knock that Licky Licky up and it has
gotten that lapis very very low and in comes that pangro and in comes Altaria
but the switch timers are completely misaligned at this point.
Hsir going for a heavier hitting close combat it's going to do you know I would
say a fine amount of damage is the better move to throw at the dragon not very effective but
still knocks it down a little bit and an immediate pivot now into that man team.
Yeah we're probably going to discuss whether or not Hsir could have held that energy till later
because she does have two twisters on the man team, but she needed some kind of help for her water flying type
Pokemon to put this Altari within KO range. Final protection of the battle from Baylor Jai goes up.
I needed to get some energy down, I think, on her side overall, knowing that Jai still had another shield left.
And now he's just getting a lot of energy throwing the sky attack. No protection left on either side.
But I'm not sure if this is quite enough to knock out, and it looks like it's not.
back into that Lapras, and now just charging up a little bit of energy forced to throw
because the switch timers were not up for H-Shira's side.
And not only that, but H-Shira knew exactly where that Lapras was.
She knew the Sparkling Aria was almost ready, and she denied it.
But the Altari might have a piece of the Sky Attack.
Question is, super effective damage.
Is this enough?
She thinks it might be.
I think they both are, but they love Jai.
Shakin' and said, yes, and absolutely this is gonna do it.
And it looks like heavy damage going through.
your pink bar goes down and the man team just doesn't have enough in the tank.
Very close matchup started with that ambitious
Aqua tail bait that went wrong.
They love Jai right at the ship, got the shield connected another charge sack later
on, brought down the man team in the very end and just played very well in spite
of his initial plan and not going according to plan.
Yeah, absolutely true.
And you have to think it's still able to pull it off by the slimmest of margins
there at the end. When you are in this match, if you remember that the stone edge is connecting
with the manjoon would do a lot of hurt. Meanwhile, quack start doesn't have so much
bulk to its name, so any attack that is thrown as you can see gets it mighty, mighty low.
This wing attack down was vicious, but they left side just could not afford to swap into
the laprists and give up control, switch advantage. If he would have done that, I believe HG
probably would have responded with the pangoro, and this whole game would have gone differently.
sometimes it can look a little bit strange that trainers will allow their
Pokemon to get farmed down like that, but they've got a bigger goal in mind and
they let Jai saw the vision and executed. It's so hard to tell, right? You're in
that very beginning portion of the matchup. You've only seen one Pokemon if
you know there's a heavy hitting attack going through and you have to wonder,
okay, am I going to go ahead and use both protect shields? Am I gonna swap out? I
don't know what I would be swapping into and I think that it sure came out in a
pretty dominated position actually at the beginning had both of her shields
gone yes but she had so much energy on that man team was able to get that full
farm down but yeah in the back it was just too hard for the pangora without
shields. Lapras and Quagsire very bulky water duo let's see if they love dry
brings them back into game number two they don't need the Alolan eintails this
time with two flying type Pokemon in the back. Going ahead and just staying in this
match it looks like both of them they're charging up a bit of energy and H.R.
immediately throws that bodice
them nothing able to threaten
the knockout or even get too
terribly low. The chip damage
is very meaningful over time.
As we've seen some of these
matchups going down to the
absolute wire. I really admire
they left eyes propensity to
bring this a low to nine tails.
He brings it to every single
meta rain shine. Whatever meta
game you walk into. He's going
to have a little night tails on
his team. It does chip down
that licky licky quite a bit,
but the swapping to the body
sand catch is very nice.
This is there is take to the
the skies as far as them will connect, but it is not very effective.
Now shadow Corbinite is a shadow type Pokemon.
We talked about this magic before it even started.
There's already now a little bit of damage on that shadow Corbinite.
So these Ticotun hammers might be putting in a little bit more work.
But as these air cutters continue to connect, there's a potential that the fast attack
damage is going to go up from the Corbinite.
We didn't see it for number one.
It looks like Jai might try again fairly soon.
I know all of our video game trainers out there would say, oh, well, take it
should win this matchup. That's how it goes in the lore. But a competitive focal
on go, the sand attacks really add up and this dynamic is flipped. Another air
cutter into your point Amanda. If a boost gets triggered here, that could be
disastrous for that Tinkerton. Yes, definitely don't want to be shielding up
these attacks. They're not doing too much damage, but as you can see not
shielding them puts a lot of damage into that Tinkerton and Tinkerton takes a
while to be able to charge up to this Tinkerton hammer. Now throwing no
protection views on this one, but not even close to knocking out needs to
throw another attack to be able to do so. I really like the overcharge here. Oh
and the patience to throw the payback here. Hsiehra knows that an air cutter
would not be enough to KO. They love Jai. The payback will pick up the knockout
after just yeah one more charge stat. What a smart play by Jai. They're
recognizing okay she might switch out. I know that the switch timers are
misaligned. Throwing the heavy hitting attack that doesn't do much damage to a
fairy but enough to knock out that licky licky. Going for the chip damage here
another air cutter. This is like the third or fourth one from this Shadow
Corviknight that just refuses to fall out of the sky and another Pokemon
swaps it now we're gonna see the Alolan Ninetales which is the man's team.
Going ahead now just a ton of energy as this Alolan Ninetales flips the hair back,
hits the shield, the energy will not connect but there's another one right on
its way should a cheered not want to throw anything but a catch onto this
tincton great play keeping all the energy out of the tans, the thing that
will hit it a little bit harder.
Exactly.
And no under charge here.
Just wanting to KO the Tinkiton.
Deals some power slow damage because it is still neutral
in this matchup and does get another weather ball.
Oh my goodness.
H-shear up fails on the charge attack party tie.
Going ahead, just going for a little bit of extra energy.
This weather ball will connect.
It's not enough to knock out, but that managing
is very, very low and forced to throw an attack.
It feels bad when you think that you could have got
a fast attack farmed down at that point.
all that energy going to waste as now the Altaria comes in.
That's where the Twister really would have been nice.
That was the vital energy she needed,
the fuel for the Twisters that she just didn't have in the end.
Well done by Thaylup Jai to send eight sheerah downs
to that loser side bracket.
Thaylup Jai coming out with a 2-0 sweep,
one of the trainers from Australia
that's been doing incredibly well this season.
And actually one of the few that is actually left
in the tournament.
Exactly right. Our trainers from the APEC region are elite, extremely talented, and again, I just can't get over the fact, right?
It's kind of like Martyn with the guillotine altered form, right?
Brings it no matter the meta, no matter who says it's good or bad, that Alolan Ninetales always comes out to play,
and he was in the thick of it in that series.
You know, it's really funny that you mentioned Martyn and that Chef Guillotine, because I believe he's also playing in Alolan Ninetales.
He's on that loser's side of the bracket.
So that means there is at least two Alola Ninetales in day two of the World Championships here in San Francisco.
This meta might be a little bit condense, but we see a lot of Licky Licky's, a lot of Kanto Ninetales, a lot of Mantine's, a lot of Ticket Towns.
But there's also a potential to have very diverse play here.
Yeah, it's incredible. Let's focus on H. Shearer as well.
I mean, right there at the cutoff for championship points
to qualify for the World Championships,
she made it into the event.
I heard the crowd absolutely erupt
when she made day two yesterday.
She's got a lot of fans, a lot of support out in the stands.
And if you're an H.Shiara fan as well, don't forget,
she's on that loser side bracket.
She's gonna continue to fight her way
through this championship series events.
I mean, and she's not gonna give up.
In the meanwhile though, Amanda,
why don't we take a look at the meta again?
Can we talk a lot about it, right?
Let's do it here. This is the top 12 Pokemon usage of day number two. And actually it's
changed quite significantly here than what we had for day number one. Licky Licky still
in that top portion of the meta as well as that Pantone Ninetales. But Corsula has moved
its way up into that third spot. Basically swapping spots with the Tinkerton and Suin
Electro has dropped actually down to 12. It was in eighth place before. Leaving opportunity
for Don Dozo to come into this.
I mean, you never predict exactly what's going to happen.
And we had Feeble get a community day.
The icy wind, Feeble was all the talk for about a week.
And I thought that Feeble was going to keep that
Goliath course law off of the meta.
But look at that number three overall in terms of usage.
And I mean, Henry called us out backstage.
Don Dozo in the top 10 is absolute cinema.
Absolute take a snapshot of this
because we're going to go ahead and look at the day one usage
just to see how much this has scrambled up.
Usually at regional competitions,
you see some things that are a little bit different,
but we have to remember,
these are all potential world champions here in San Francisco.
So it doesn't surprise me that a lot of things
are fairly similar overall,
with just a few niche pitches making their way up a little bit.
Hyrothebel know where to be found on that couple of.
Well, I mean, the fall off of Enobo's Stuntfist
will also be studied for generations, I believe.
And that Pokemon was very stubborn,
very hard to get off the field and also very reliable.
And I mean, given the lack of mud slap
and other ground type Pokemon to counter it,
maybe just wasn't finding the targets it needed
amongst the elite players.
You know what actually really surprises me about that
is the fact that Mantine stayed in that fourth spot
and some of Mantine's hardest counters
are those electric type Pokemon.
There's not as many of them in day two,
but there's still as many Mantine.
So we're gonna have to see how the engaging play styles
will work between each other.
just saw them with a share and they love Jai. There's a lot of twister damage into the Altaria,
but Altaria still managed to take that and help they love Jai get that 2-0 victory.
I would not want to be a man team in this meta. I mean you're like a stingray in a thunderstorm.
You do not want to be in that environment. Very unfavorable skies, but these trainers have found
ways to keep it out of those negative matchups and put it in positions where it really shines.
And we've seen that especially against other dragon type Pokemon and against ground type
opponents where the twister and waterpulse respectively just wreak havoc on those Pokemon.
Now, Licky Licky in that top spot is actually not really a surprise. We've seen it quite a few
times so far on the winner's side of the bracket. It's one of those Pokemon where it's not doing
anything stand out, right? It's not doing anything that's so heavy hitting. A lot of times you even
see a shadow ball being caught onto another Licky Licky since they're around so often, but it's
It's just consistent and adds a little bit of bulk and kind of a Swiss army knife to
your team, especially with the lack of fighters.
It reminds me of the Shrugging meme where it's just like he just shows up and it's like,
I'm just going to do my job.
I'm here too.
We've got a very exciting matchup here on screen for you.
We're going to see a Shadow of the Paldon from Hiromaru take on Dunebug's Jealouson.
Now those are two Pokemon that have really stood out for these trainers.
I remember catching up with Dunebug just briefly yesterday.
This is his first career day two at Worlds.
He said the jealous thing was the key.
Yeah, absolutely.
One thing that we also love to point out about Dune Bug is he's had incredible seasons
time and time again.
He was our first person to win two regional championships in a season.
Everyone make some noise if you're enjoying the Pokemon Go tournament so far.
We see a lot of friendly faces here.
Many competitors and also spectators coming along to cheer people along.
Exactly right.
many fans and we appreciate each and every one of you. I cannot wait to get into this series because
Japan has been an absolute force in this day two of the bracket and it's not going to slow down
anytime soon. This is the biggest challenge yet for Dumbug. As you said, he's had such a strong
like seasonal performance each year, but Worlds is just not where he's shined the most. Maybe that
changes this weekend. He was ecstatic to be able to make day two and I know here tomorrow is also
excited to be playing on this main stage, getting a little more opportunity for some
spotlight showing off how great Japan is going to be so far. We're hopping into game number one
great leap right here, Marla. We've got that licky-licky up against the Jellison. Very nicely.
Instant pivot out from Doombug into that shadow. Kanto nine tails again just trying to reset the
board, move the pieces around a little bit and look at how critical alignment is. Not only was
it licky-licky into Jellison lead, but if Doombug loses this matchup, his feeble might face a
to take a ton. Going ahead now just getting all of that damage off on the
Ninetales. Ninetales has a ton of energy at this point too where the ball is stored.
First one, no particular shield. Remarrow recognizing okay this is not enough to be
able to even threaten a knockout. I'm in a fairly safe position but who I'm
swapping into the Hapaldon to soak up the rest of this energy has to put up a
shield because there was energy ball energy from Dunebug. Yeah this is
actually great news for Dunebug. He's able to move the pieces around his
switch timers about five seconds away. Not close enough to fail out that
Kanto and I-Tales, but it will allow him to send out the next Pokemon of his choice.
Trying to do a bit of team reading here as well.
He sees the Hapaldon, he's seen the lead, he sends out the Thievil.
What a call from Doombug.
Doombug's calls have always been great.
We've seen him time and time again on this main stage.
But here, tomorrow, he's just preparing for that heavy hit in Earth Power,
knocks that Thievil down very, very low,
and looks like just continuing to gain up a little bit of energy.
What's this slow this Hapaldon down with an icy wind?
I think it's going to do more than slow down a minute.
I think it's going to freeze it in place.
That's a big knockout from the icy wind community today,
Thiebel, and to pin it into the Jellison.
I like this a lot because it allows
him to switch back into the Thiebel in case
he's deep up at any point in this battle.
Blink, and you missed the swaps by both of these trainers.
A little bit of help on the Thiebel.
Here, Maro knew exactly what was coming.
Swapped immediately back into that licky, licky.
Now, this Jellison is just going to throw
serves all the way. Hex and shadow ball double resisted, never used those moves in this matchup
trainers and then Licky Licky is going to get the final protect shield from Hiromaru.
Going ahead now throwing that shadow ball and getting the protect shield off of Dune Bugside.
Dune Bug has some energy left over. We saw Hiromaru use that last shield on the serve
and now Dune Bug just going ahead counting like he does knowing that I'm going to throw right
before that next shadow ball is available. Hopefully this is enough to get that Licky Licky
off the field. If it's not, that swap out of the Feeble earlier might save him because
the switch time is up. If he wants to catch Shadowball, no, if it's a hit, trying to catch
the Shadowball, but instead he feeds the Tinketon for extra fairy wins. Tinketon's saying,
okay, Jellison, you and me, here we go. Where's that energy going to go? Giggiton hammer number
one coming through. No protect shields left on either side. Shadowball loaded on the Licky
Licky, but Licky Licky normally loses charge attack priority to the Jellison. Doombug has
to be very wary of his energy and where it's going.
Yeah, if he doesn't leave this match up with a surf in hand,
the loss is practically guaranteed.
And he's got to fire off something
before the kick-a-ton hammer is ready.
Otherwise, the game is over regardless.
So the play right there, making the swap into the feeble,
predicting the shadow ball, and just being
met by the kick-a-ton, that derailed in Bucks' plans.
These reaction times by these trainers
is absolutely insane.
And what a great line read here tomorrow from the beginning to the very end.
Dupont played very, very well, quick swaps, knowing where his energy counter at, knowing
where his opponent's energy was, but when you have a hard counter in the front and a
hard counter in the back, I'm impressed if you made it even that close.
You want to eliminate the variables as much as you possibly can.
You want to narrow down your opponent's options until you can predict with confidence what
they're going to do.
There are two options there for Hiramaru, and he chose option B, whereas Dunebug went
for option A. And look at the replay right on Q. That was the critical moment.
Giving all of that extra energy to the Tinketun really helped out Hiramaru there, because
not being able to make it to two Tinketun hammers before Dunebug had two surfs loaded, one for
the Tinketun, and then one for that Licky Licky in the back.
You see, Hiramaru, I think he might have just held his breath that entire match up, a huge
Exhale as he reached the second gigaton hammer and knew the match was in hand
But he's gonna start sweating again because we're heading into game number two and doonbug is no pushover
He's got to make some adjustments though because that alignment in game one was just horrendous for him
Yeah, as we talked about before you booked first trainer to win two regional championships in one season
He also won a regional championship losing round one and dropping down to the losers bracket
This is a much better lead for him there also leaving the jealous and saying if it first don't succeed try try again
And now we'll see if we're gonna have any fancy catches or going straight for the attacks this energy ball
We'll do a decent amount of damage. This is a shadow canton nine tails
So it's doing 20% more damage with its attacks and that is a lot on that jealous. I mean heck
It might even be within weather ball range at this point trying to catch a shadow ball here
Amaro sends out his normal type licky licky
But doombug gets wise to it fires the surf instead and now he can pivot to the feeble
the Fox is out of the nest and it's on the field.
Now, what is the Fox going to say to this licky-licky that already has a bit of energy stored up?
Going to have to take a body slam number one, but can take it definitely on the chin.
Just getting a ton more energy before throwing either.
Night Slash does have a potential for a boost for your own attack,
and Icy Wind will automatically lower your opponent's attack here.
There are both loaded on Doomboats.
He has not thrown on the cat yet. He's taken two bodies and he's going for one more going for that night slash
Yeah, I really like this play a lot he weakened the feeble
So it's not going to be a lot of farm for the next Pokemon that comes out any banks
Night slash plus which means he can likely throw a fairy excuse me a icy wind onto his opponent
No matter what comes in this time. He's gonna opt for the night slash one for that night slash
It's going to do more damage into that fire type Pokemon of that Phantom 9 tails
He knocks it down to the yellow and immediately put it out into the Hapaldon to try to get some energy advantage
But actually Dunebug is just as quick getting that first shield there with the surf
Now the question is does the shadow Hapaldon have the bite force necessary to grind up the jealousy before the next surf is ready
He's only one hex away. Oh my goodness. I don't know if he's gonna get there in time
Rock weather ball Dunebug has the shield if he wants to charge tech he defers going ahead letting this knock out his jealousy
just put in a lot of work that game.
Feeble is very low health,
but when you have a Pokemon with a ground type fast tech,
shadow damage on shadow damage,
I think we're going to see very, very quickly
how low this Ninetales can go,
even with two protect shields to hide behind.
Now one as it protects up against that first rock weather ball.
Yeah, Ninetales limbo was not on my bingo car,
but it's going to have to play here in San Francisco.
Can you go?
Can he get to the weather balls that he needs?
Meanwhile, the rock type weather balls will fire off
and timing sand attacks in order for a swap is nearly impossible.
The dune bug might need to pull off the impossible to win this battle.
Keep in mind it's the one protect shield left on hero Maro's side.
Maybe he will use it here as this first weather ball is going to go through.
It looks like he does use that last one up. There's a lot of energy on the side of dune bug.
Tries to go for a catch and that's exactly what he does but there was a ton of energy on that as well.
This weather ball coming through nice and hot.
Yeah I think the dune bug needs a bit more energy though.
He might get one or two embers here but he risks the charge.
No, the energy ball is fired off here.
This is going to deal just slightly more damage in the matchup
and might trigger defense drop as well.
You might think, what, a grass type against a fire type?
But there's a lot of potential things that could go through.
Doombug manages to go through this.
Abba Weatherball already stored tons of energy.
Will it be enough for the Shadowhook powder to go down?
A hope, a prayer, and a weather ball is all Doombug needs.
Tying up the series one to one.
Winners, round two.
we are going into a decisive game number three.
Headed into game number three.
This is an epic series thus far.
Hiromaru, great alignment to take control of game number one,
but Dunebug committed to the Jellison,
fights back in battle number two.
So we take a zoomed in look here at the team.
We've seen a lot of Jellison, a lot of Thiebel.
But do we get some of the other picks
in this battle number three?
Dunebug has a team that is a little bit more unique.
The table was on a lot of usage for day number one.
It did drop off that top 12 usage,
but I think in the hands of the trainer like you,
but we can see how potent people really could be,
especially in that match of able to take two body seams,
put in some damage,
but then that really turned into the nine tail show at the end.
No, exactly nine tail, such a good closer
with great typing coverage and potency to match
that weather ball was probably just barely enough.
I don't know if the Hapaldon was a little bit healthier
It might have hung on, but it was enough to pick up the KO and tie up the series right down to the wire between these two players.
You'll have to let us know in the chat who are you cheering for. Are you cheering for a trainer that you've seen do well time and time again?
Are you cheering for a trainer who you haven't seen play that often but has impeccable plays throughout this championship series?
We've got Kiro Maro from Japan on that left-hand side and Dunebug 97 on the right.
We're in winners round two.
These trainers have not lost yet.
Loser of this matchup will be knocked down
to the loser side of the bracket.
We have the Hapaldon against the Ninjails.
It won't end with the show before
is now starting this next round.
Exactly here that Hapaldon roar forces the Ninjails out.
In comes the Florgis.
And we've got another fairy matchup this time.
The Florgis making his first appearance in the series.
Going ahead and trying to chill out this Tinkerton.
Chilling water will lower the attack of Tinkerton.
But I tell you what, a fairy type Pokemon
have a guillotine hammer doesn't want to take it no matter how low it's being
dropped here with all these chilling waters. Hiramaru not using a protect shield
on either one. I think yesterday we saw a very similar situation even after two
chilling waters if Hiramaru full sends this gigaton hammer it will KO the
floor just that's just how powerful these charge attacks are from the
take a ton and it does out comes a Kanto 9 tails. The hammer drops in a bulldoze to
No protect shield used on the first one.
Yes, it is super effective damage,
but Bulldoze has the potential to lower the defenses.
Exactly what happens as a bow down come back in
to start putting in the work with those fast attacks.
Weatherball coming through on the bow down.
This time it's got two protect shields,
a high behind, using that first one now.
Here in Maro, I think losing count there.
Dunebug wasn't quite at the energy ball,
but he wants to maintain health
on his ground type Pokemon,
which is definitely understandable.
Two protect shields remaining for Dunebug.
This is not yet the earth power,
but he still shields this one up.
going ahead, getting a little bit of bait calls on both sides now saying, you know, what
shadow damage is nothing to fool around with regardless, but the Hapaldon is now at that
heavy, beating earth power, only one protection shield for DOOMBO, he uses it both here, this
is where you want to use it, that people now has energy galore and there's still no, really
sign of any other charge attack being able to be thrown.
Yeah, I think the DOOMBO recognized as well, he could not sucker punch all the way down
that Hapaldon was closing in on another charge attack, she's got to take it off the field,
He's going to double up on the night slashes again and fire off the first he's hoping this will be enough to knock out.
It's not going to be very effective with this darkness against that very typing, but at such a low stage, I'm going for the first.
We'll be able to connect this is sort of a catch, but this is also going to put that nine tells down very, very low.
low. Yeah, I wanted to keep the evil healthy as possible and outcomes a fresh
licky-licky hot and fresh out of the oven with full HP. I don't know this
might be too much for Doomboot to overcome. Going for the energy ball,
heavier hitting attack gets that last protect shield. Will there be a defense
drop? No defense drop for hero Maros Licky-licky coming in with tons of energy,
tons of health. Evil's gonna start putting in some work. A night slash boost
might be able to help but I'm not even sure at this stage if it will be able to
do enough. I mean I think he desperately needed that defense drop doesn't get the
defense ball on the energy ball doesn't get the first night slash boost body
Sam coming through and the weight of this extra extra large licky licky is
bearing down on the feeble and everybody that looks like a wrap number
one on the usage for a reason here a wall shakes his fist as he takes down
one of our top trainers knocking them down to the loser side bracket Japan is
on a roll here in San Francisco.
Japan continues to ascend again.
Some of the most talented trainers in the world
are located in the TPC region.
Former champions like Kikai and the Elder Boy.
We don't see them compete very often.
We don't see who Hiromaru compete basically ever on stream.
So if you're watching now, this is definitely a treat.
And I know if you are home slice Henry,
you're probably very excited
because he's been freaking the hell out on gaming.
So being able to see it do so well,
being able to advance on to that winners round three congratulations to hero
moral fantastic plays throughout this series a tough series for dunebug and
losing round one on day two excuse me losing round two on day two is probably
a tough pill to swallow but we know anything about him you alluded to this
earlier Amanda back in san Antonio losing round one and then fighting his
way through that loser side bracket through a grand finals reset dunebug
eventually playing the title and that just lends to the fact that he's got one of the best mental
games in the entire championship series history. Absolutely true. I mean he's got to be so excited
already to be able to make it on so far on that winter side of the bracket for Worlds.
His farthest run that he's made it so far at a world championships and I would not count Dudebug.
He might be down but he is definitely not out of this competition but he's going to have a much
longer run to have to go through because I don't know I don't know if you guys remember seeing that loser side bracket earlier on but there are still a
Ton of names left in this tournament and we're gonna show you a lot of really interesting ones throughout the series
Japan has been very powerful, but the ground type Pokemon they are leveraging are super unique
Let's go ahead and zoom in on another one. Look at that sting
We're going to con and Contano with that shadow twice score. That's another unique ground type Pokemon
And we're gonna give everybody a little preview what's coming next
Yeah, so don't go anywhere because this matchup is going to be hype.
Don Dozzo, Shadow Glide Score, after this.
My name is Vaid Bum. I go by Vaid Zaboi and I'm from India.
He is holding his community on his back, his strength, his dreams, and he can do it right
now.
My favorite Pokemon starter is Speaker Tito. That was my first actual starter in Skyrim
Like most people, I started playing the game in 2016 and it first came out when covid hit
I found out about the battling feature that Pokemon Go had added and I just hopped on
to the game and I've been playing since.
My friend persuaded me to come to Japan.
I hadn't qualified for the world championship but I really like the game.
He told me to come along.
That was my first international trip.
The atmosphere at Worlds was crazy.
It's accent won that time.
I thought you know I would like to compete in the world someday and I also met Aaron
Cybertron Sen who's really cool you know my friend persuading me to come to Japan
and meeting Cybertron goes to other things that got me into competitive Pokemon there are so many
great players I mean dancing Rob is definitely one person that you know he's the trailblazer
he's the first world champion like most things it takes a while to learn and it's not always
It's a smooth sailing.
It's very important to take a step back sometimes
and take a deep breath and lean things over.
It's best to just drink lots of water and you know, pause.
This is my second in-person tournament.
The first one I got the fourth place.
He is following up his last year's world performance
with the exact same dominance.
I really like Mekhla's.
I caught it on my daily adventure and since
when they walk back home,
I definitely had to build a team around it.
I have an Islay for opposing fighters.
I have Lapras, which is the best neutral pick in the game.
I was sure that this is a good team
and that I have practiced well enough with it,
that I can play around most opposing teams.
The MVP of my team was definitely Lapras.
One of my toughest opponents was Indus Harjit.
His Anislay was really good versus my team
because I didn't have Ghost Scyther in my own annihilator and he's a great opponent.
This was my first finals on stream.
The easel boy has now reset the bracket!
I feel like when you're actually battling, you don't really pay a lot of attention
to what is happening around you, you just focus on the battles.
Most of it was the same but lots of smoke, lots of fight and lots of people's hearing.
This next game is going to determine your Pokemon Go World Champion!
Right at the end when I hit the ice beam on the Corsula,
He goes on ice beam!
I knew it was done.
Absolute cinema!
The number one challenge that I set for myself this season was to make as little misphase as possible.
And how thick is it?
Well, I didn't make a few misphase, but I guess it balances out because I won.
If you're 20-25, go, go, go! World champion!
My most memorable moment on the stage was definitely, you know, walking up to the podium with the crowd cheering and then lifting the trophy.
This is the one event where I get to meet a lot of my friends.
The community is really warm and wholesome and, you know, very welcoming.
Thank you for all your kindness and I'm very grateful for everything that community has helped me with.
He's a bad boy! He's a bad boy!
He's a bad boy!
What's my favorite?
My favorite's the one that's got jet black hair.
He's extremely fast.
Limitless.
He's so cute.
She has a 12 octave vocal range.
Can be calm.
Powerful.
He's too little.
He would improvise on the spot.
He just always finds a way to make it funny.
We both have very fast moves.
And can change the world.
Using its mind.
Jigglypuff is my favorite.
Jigglypuff!
Jigali puff, jigali puff
Every single time you met a new Pokemon
It's not like you met a new part of yourself
He likes to sleep
He's just like me
I'm like, I don't know what's a good opponent for you
He's in a different form than the other opponents
He's serious, fabulous, we love language
Salvayote, sapinite
She uses her voice to protect herself
There's homies, you know?
That's why I love it
My favorite is Iki
the
Welcome back trainers to the 2026 Pokemon go world championships
And we're here in Dana juice don't go and do that losers bracket in the top
32 and I believe all the players here that may top 32 are still in it because we haven't gone through any the loser side yet
So any of them still has a chance to make it to that grand finals. I'm Daniel Bank
I'm Joe with two of butters how you feel about the action so far well
We just saw some of their favorite Pokemon. What is your favorite Pokemon right now still in the competition?
I'm really feeling the shadow glist score, which we're gonna be able to see on stage next from Contono
Yeah, that is a that's a fantastic one too. I'm a big fan don do so right?
I haven't played much in Great League, but it's actually it's an absolute beast
It's so tanky and we seen it in storming these matches ready even in Great League
It is I mean an absolute whales is the best way to describe it, but it's the water of choice that a lot of players have lean into and
It's just like a very interesting book while you can take a lot. You can still dish out a lot of damage
It's a little bit slow just moves at times, but it's good. I don't know
It's hard because it's not easy to play in my opinion. We've got the trainers ready on stage
We are gonna see that don does though from sustenance eater who of course took down part of on earlier in the tournament now
Now he's going to be facing Contono with these spicy picks.
This is where Rubber meets the road for this type of trainer because his best ever performance
has been seventh place.
Now he's sitting in this top 12, at least I believe, trying to get even further in the
biggest stage possible.
But we know he built this team with his brother, Nighttime Clashier.
It is a more popular team, but it was built more for the top of the meta.
It wasn't prepared as much for the spice that we're going to see on stage right now.
here's the crazy part right because so many talented players from all around
the world especially from North America. Sustanseter is the only remaining
North American player in the winners bracket which is absolutely wild right
because we have so many talented players in this region but he's the one that
came out on top has the hopes and dreams of the NA fans here. Let's go game
number one Sustanseter Universe and Contano and it's going to be a fortress
into a tinket that'll start things off. Contano is shaking his head but this is
just fine for the fortress as well because you're able to get to that super effective
santoom and once you get that debuff these bug bites start to add up and in its favor
it's going to be able to resist because of the steel typing this gigaton hammer and take
neutral from that bulldoze as well let's take a peek at the back line we're going to see
those pokemons we're going to see that don dozo and the shadow gliss score in this matchup
the shadow gliss score doesn't want to see the don dozo though let's not forget about
the shadow polytode as well. I think the only shadow polytode in the top 32, one of
you maybe the only one in the entire world championships. It's such a unique
pick, but so well caught off from Contano and we get to the Rocks in this
season because you get, but then you will get a T-Block and could do a lot of
damage if it goes unshielded and Contano is going to spend that for shields.
Look how weak Contano's team is to Dantoso. He has that polytode in the back
But his coverage attacks is water in ice which is going to be resisted in this ground type Pokemon that through the sand
Tomb didn't do that much damage, but gets the debuff is taking super effective waterfall damage
This don dozo could just sit in state and waterfall down
But instead trying to knock out the gliscor so he doesn't have to give up a protection from that acrobatics
Yeah, I like the playbook. It's us to see they're knowing that
Contrano did catch the actress litigates so much damage and now he sees the value of the dog
So so much potential here as it's going to resist all the charge attack from the poly toad
And the only you don't resist is bulldoze and that's such a bad group in the signature as well
So such as either like you're gonna try to preserve this much muscle is still debuff
But the outrage is still going to full damage as possible
It's going just no shield the outrage and outrage is a strong attack as you see it land into that poly toad
This fortress is energy tribe
But you don't want to get knocked out by those bug bites
to actually have to commit.
It looks like Sus is looking to protect you.
He's holding it.
Last second, he says, I don't need it
because I can come in and try to finish this off
with either Mike D'Ozzo by throwing some waterfalls
and soaking this energy.
And then eventually, poisons thing down.
You have two protectives remaining
and a wall of help with that Clawtire in the back.
And Clawtire doesn't know it's Clawtire yet,
but I think we're going to see a real sad face once he sees it.
This foggy, poisoned ground type is just unstoppable
in the back line, Kondo does have a lot of energy, but Sassanir still has both shields up and goes for the Bodo's baits.
Sassanir's gonna call it, if he calls this, it's pretty much his game over. He has a thing in through, and he does call the Bodo's bait, absolutely huge.
Doesn't get the debuff either, it is a 50-50 chance here, and you're gonna find out how these Pokemon that are so bulky,
that take a long time to get the charge tax, they get a little clunky in the endgame here.
There are two protection remaining. He lets it go once again on that bulldoze. This time, he did get the coin flip.
He's already had another bulldoze, but there is one protection remaining.
You have to give it up right here if you're Contono.
And now, Sush and its eater has to protect shield all of the remaining charge attacks from Contono.
You're getting close to your timer as well.
That's the final shield from Contono though, and there's no way you can protect the Paulito from the incoming stone edge.
Sush here throws up the first shield. Paulito is there. You can try to go for a catch.
I don't even know if there's enough time at this point to help the solo.
He tries to go for it, but Sustenizider head on a swivel is locked in ready for this matchup.
He even has the earthquake to boot.
Spends up that final shield. A dominant game for him.
He had so much time to be able to see if that swap would happen.
It is going to be on that charge stack priority.
We've seen a good game from Sustenizider who's already taken down Padelman.
Now he is on his way to take down Contono as well as he cleans up that game one
with the Don Dozo, the Cossire, and the Shadow Fortress,
a great combination that Don Dozo and Shadow Fortress.
I mean, his team is just a brick wall.
Look at it.
You got the Cossire, the Don Dozo, the Licky, Licky,
the Corsula, and even the Fortress and Malmo
are not the most playable.
Come on, they just give him so much flexibility
and room for error if he ever goes down that route,
but there wasn't really any errors in his gameplay either.
But the problem is for Contono,
he's pretty weak to Don Dozo.
You have that Charger Bug, but because Susset and Cedar
is one of those few trainers that have the ground types
in Claude Sire, it's so dominant against Charger Bug
that if you match it up, you're probably
going to lose the battle.
So it's so hard to bring that Charger Bug into this matchup,
but it's going to be your best answer versus Dondozo.
You look at that lineup.
You had Tinketon, which the Dondozo resisted.
Tinketon hammered.
You had Blizzcore that takes super effective damage
from waterfall.
And then you have the polytode that can't do any damage with this charge attack.
How is Contano gonna bounce back and deal with this Dondozo?
We're gonna see if it's on the line of three from Susen and Cedar.
There it is in the back.
And this is a great lead for Contano.
You can see the instant swap from Dondozo, getting right to it.
Here comes Licky Licky Licky Licky Licky and he's a neutral answer to Dondozo, full
throwing neutral attacks, but the serve point do a little bit more damage and then the body
seam as Susen and Cedar reaches that first charge attack first.
I think it's literally best case scenario for Contono
to match up his Licky Licky into the Dondo.
He still has those two Spikesticks,
the Shadow Gliscor, the Shadow Polytoad,
but he needs to get this Dondo out of the arena.
And the best way to do so is with the number one usage Pokemon,
the Licky Licky throws one Shadow Ball.
The second Shadow Ball will not be enough,
but it is gonna be thrown.
And I love the playstone, Susanyi, right?
That doesn't have the shield though, the first Shadow Ball.
Now he's gonna throw the shield,
knowing that he has the bolt to handle this damage.
And now, good fight first, which you managed.
Go south valuable, the Dondoza is even.
And throws this move right into the bodice,
then it's reached.
Conflict out, just go and let it go.
Letting it go, because at this point,
even if you get to another charge attack,
it's just gonna be tough to clean up,
because you could get that second protect shield
from Sus and Cedar.
So I like letting it go,
trying to get some mud shot damage
into this Dondoza, just soaked up in outrage.
Actually, no, using one of his protect shields
to make sure he maintains some health on his polytose.
Maybe he thinks that polytose could be quite useful
in the back.
into the fortress. Do we see the counterpillars in the Shadow Gliscor? Yes!
And this is not again the worst matchup for substance eater.
If you can show them acrobats correctly and they get the default,
it wasn't in a huge position. Doesn't snuff this hour. I think it's a sand-tomb bait.
Contano has not been baiting at all. He doesn't bait again.
He lands an acrobatic one-shot KO against the Shadow Fortress.
Boom! It is out of there and Contano does not mess around.
Now going for the sand-tomb because this Don Jozo is such low health.
It should be just about enough to knock out, but Don Dogo does have a lot of health, doesn't hang on.
No, doesn't knock it out. Now it's Malomar in the back. Can you get to a Santel before you get sideways down?
But you get sideways down first. So that's the energy advantage for Malomar coming into the polydome.
But polydome also has energy remaining. It's going to be so close, Caleb.
It is. Malomar has a little bit more health, but the speed to these charge attacks is big.
Sassanizir Kona let the first one go knowing that he could tank one of the moves.
Ice beam or weather ball is enough now has back to back moves.
He has to take one.
Yes, I like to play from Kostino here because the Superb is going to do more damage and doesn't
think that Kostino will go for Superb right off the bat.
Now, Kostino is going to go for the side way down, but Kostino knows he's at the back-to-back
weather ball.
One is coming through, he's going to be shielded, but here comes the next one and Kostino is
going to even up the series one-to-one.
with the best buddy shadow polytones of Pokemon.
No one was expecting that Pokemon Go World
is able to close it out with this dynamic duo partner,
the Shadow Glissor.
Japan has its own meta,
and that is why they have been dominating
here in day number two so far.
Contono is already in winners round number two.
Tied up this series.
We just saw Hero Maro before take out Beezaboy and Dunebug.
The start of the day,
we had eight trainers from the Japan region
coming in to the top 32.
and they have been showing up so far.
Absolutely.
I mean, forget about the polytode gliscor core.
Polytode by itself,
glycocor by itself is wild.
The fact that he's even put together,
this is not even a Japanese man.
This is a Contano meta, if I've ever seen one.
And he's just bringing it into every matchup.
I know the Dondo's will look safe, right?
Into everything on the side of Contano.
But at the same time,
the Polytode is not terrible into Dondo.
So you're resisting all that wall-wall damage,
doing neutral mud shot damage.
The weather ball spam will add up,
even in some wonkier D'Andoso.
And if you shoot the outrage,
it's not in the worst case scenario,
but the problem is you just can't bring the charge block, right?
It's so strong into the Malamar and into the D'Andoso,
but the problem is there's a Klotsyer, there's a Licky Licky,
there's a Korshla, and you even have Rotium on the fortress.
It puts Contono in a top, top position,
but he found a way to do number two.
It's a really important point,
because I feel like Contono got energy against that D'Andoso.
Like you mentioned, the Shadow Polydode is not awful
against the Dondozo and if you can find that window of opportunity to come in take some
waterfalls, bank up a ton of energy, get back to your switch timer and use that for the
end game just like you did in game number two, that could be your advantage.
You can take advantage of Dondozo's bulk by just banking up energy and using it for the
end game and it was the best case scenario for Contono.
He was able to match up his licky-licky versus Dondozo so we'll see in game number three.
You probably know that Dantoso is coming so you probably just want to go as safe and neutral
as possible because Winner's round number three is on the line here at Pokemon Go World.
Whoever wins this game is advancing and there it is, the Dantoso versus the Pangoro.
Shiny Pangoro at that and you have the hard-hitting close call, the Assassin's Deater has not
been shielding a lot of these moves, but Cots of No has not been baiting either, he comes
to bait though.
The Assassin's Deater snuffed it out, he has a decision to make, this could be a hard-hitting
Close combat, keep close the shields, and we get the bait.
And the boost!
We get the boost on Dantoso, you can see on his face.
And he hasn't been baiting the entire tournament
to use it for this moment right now.
Got the shield, got the boost, it paid off.
Now these close combats are gonna do so much damage.
We know Dantoso is bulky,
but I don't even know if it can hang onto this Caleb.
I don't know either, it's us two leaders.
He's gotta think this through as he is one crotch away
from the next close combat.
No!
Close combat has one more in the bank without the one
crash up also has the night trade.
You might try to save the entry once the Closar comes in.
Closar comes in, gonna bank up.
No, Ash is gonna, oh wait, comes in the fortress instead.
And maybe is he trying to get the double night slash
or is he gonna try to pivot out?
Here comes the night slash.
That gets no protection, you know,
the front sustenance, you know,
so he properly called the charge check here.
Here comes the swap.
Into the polydote.
The polydote gets the weather ball so quickly.
Fortress is just on the rope.
has to use the flash protection of the battle because of that boost because of that bait.
Sustenance is so far behind.
I like this shield from Susten here.
He needs to grab a deep off.
He needs to win a rock tomb or grab the final shield.
He grabs it.
Oh wait, Kanto's not going to shield us.
And this could be the opening that Klotsar needs.
He has a great master of intrapango and panko.
He doesn't have a lot of health.
And Bajo doesn't have much.
Wait, tries to go for a potential catch on the weather ball, which should not be ideal.
Wait, with this poison seeing knocked out, can you get double weather ball?
If Contano can get double weather ball or swap out,
it's gonna be so tough for Susten Zeter,
or will this poison sting knock out before?
No, he gets to the double weather ball.
I don't know how Susten Zeter's gonna be able
to come back from this.
Yeah, I think Susten Zeter's trying to just snipe it down
with some poison stings,
but it is only the tag-downs he bought,
not the defense, and now comes Licky Licky,
a tough matchup typically, but shields down, low health.
Licky Licky should be able to close it out.
Contano is soaking it in as he knows.
He is about to close out this game and able to take down
Susen Cedar.
All he needs is the charge attacks first.
There's going to be a stone edge,
but Susen Cedar is looking up.
He knows his fate right now.
He is one shadow ball away from losing this battle.
But here comes the fortress.
Here comes the first shadow ball.
Excuse me, two shadow balls away from losing this battle.
Yeah, constant opatient on that overbombing,
knowing the fortress is in range of shadow,
but just needs almost two to close it out.
One final shadow ball will do it and Contano continues his dreams here in the World Championships.
Takes a 2-1 victory over Sousa and Seater.
And it's been the trainers from Japan.
Contano, Hiromaru are the first ones moving on into this winners round number three.
And day number two taking out the last North American trainer that was on the winners side of the bracket.
with the Shadowflip score, with the Shadowpolydote,
a pangoro with a boost, close combat,
don't know though you're bulky, not bulky enough.
Yeah, and what the mind game is from,
I'm a constant on myself, right?
Going for the hard hitting acrobatics,
so many times against the matchups,
not going for the base, and finally,
in the situation where he needed the most,
he faced the nice touch perfectly,
and the boost, that's gotta feel good
to get that off as well.
And if I have my information correct,
I think this is Contano's first ever World Championship,
qualified to TJCS with the ninth place finish, which is pretty high in that tournament.
And, you know, the only other corner record that I'm aware of is he went three and two at EYC this year.
And that's about it. But he is playing out of his mind and playing against the best players in the world.
What's the coolest and spikiest scene he's doing in his way and it's proven to work.
I got to see this close combat again. I got to see that damage once it was boosted.
the shiny best buddy, Pankoro, able to take out that Dondozo.
And then also being able to hold on to get to that last weather ball was huge,
because if you didn't get that chunk damage,
your Licky-a-Licky wouldn't have a good opportunity to close in the back,
because Fork just still had some health remaining.
I love that his Shadow Pokemon, or his shiny or Flex Pokemon, are best buddy.
A little bit of the Axon Flare, but I love to see it on the Spicy Pokemon,
because usually Axon has the Meta Pokemon best buddy,
but love it from Tantano.
I mean, if you're winning that much for a shout of politics,
I would best study it as well.
What a great performance on him.
And you know, every little thing he thought through, right?
He didn't shield the politics because he doesn't know what's
in that.
It could have been a malware.
Having that shield for the licky, licky was huge there.
And he knew that even if he doesn't shield the politics,
the athletes neutralize the closet.
So he's thought everything multiple sets ahead of time.
And that's something that's super impressive from him
on the stage so far.
And you see early on, you have a dodozo problem.
But I feel like as the series progressed,
he figured out that problem.
First, it was the polytode.
Being able to make up all that energy,
then use that energy later,
was really effective in the game number two.
In the game number three, just go as neutral as possible.
Show Pangoro, show Licky Licky, show Polytode.
The three Pokemon that will have the best neutral chance
against that Dandozo.
And he was able to come out on top,
and now he is advancing.
That's right.
And our bracket is just absolutely stacked here.
And you can see Japan leading the way there.
We're going to hear a moral verse.
Consonant in the next one.
The two remaining players in Japan on the winter side,
but they're still playing in them on that loose set as well.
M.E.B. Widow vs. B.B. David.
I'm sure we've seen before four players from E.U.
And then Montregald, they were today's love, Jai.
Jai, they're only remaining Australian player
in this top bracket.
But he's having a tournament on his life as well.
And if you're just joining us,
we started the day with 32 trainers.
But by the end of the day,
there will only be two remaining to advance the championship Sunday at Chaserter.
So that is what they're battling for.
Of course, prizes as well.
And the further you get off that prize chart, it matters a lot for these trainers,
especially for these trainers trying to make that losers run.
Yeah, and I believe we haven't played any of the losers back yet, so there might be a chance
we could play all of them on broadcast, which would be absolutely huge.
I mean, we got a long day of battles, and I'm excited for every one of them.
Next up, we have Emmie Weedow versus PBB David.
And here's a really interesting fact.
Emmie Weedow just beat Boom.
Boom, I believe not only is really good friends with PBB David,
but they're also in the same team.
Yes, the same exact team.
So if anything, Emmie Weedow has practiced already into the same team,
there wasn't close to one victory though.
So not really maybe a significant team advantage as we see.
The prize money, the glory, everything that the players are fighting for.
You know, I think even the Royson prize money,
if he was still played their hearts out just for that title.
Of course, and on Championship Sunday, exclusive pose that we've had for previous world champions
and of course holding up that trophy in an NBA arena in the chase center.
But who will make it there?
We're still on that winner's side of the bracket,
Emmy Weedle versus P2P David, which means for Europe they're going to have one trainer
getting into that winner's round number three as well.
And you just mentioned it, Emmy Weedle was able to take out Boom,
who Boom has the same team as PDP David
and also a similar place out, they're very good friends.
So he kind of has the blueprint
to be able to take out PDP David,
but the other key thing is you gotta know PDP David
and Boom were probably talking afterwards
and trying to think about what went wrong
in that Boom matchup and PDP David is gonna come out
with the exact answers that he think Boom messed up on.
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, PDP David wasn't battling with Boom was battling too.
So you could probably bet that he was in the stands
cheering on his friend, watching the battles,
analyzing and knowing that, you know what?
If my friend doesn't beat him, it's gonna be me off next.
And that's exactly gonna be the case.
So very excited to see how they play it out.
And also important factor is just because you have
the same team doesn't mean you play the same way.
And we see that in many tournaments, right?
Where friends will run their same exact team.
I mean, Susten's a great example, right?
Maybe ran the same team as his brother,
not his own classroom,
but he has made such a long way in this tournament.
Sometimes it depends on the matchup,
sometimes runs on the play style, what you'd like to lean into.
No, it's a great clarification because they're playing at the same level
because they're both super talented, but they could diverge in separate directions.
Absolutely, absolutely.
So very excited to see this head to head EU matchup.
I know for the EU fans, they probably don't want their players from the same region
facing each other, but it's bound to happen if you keep winning in this winners bracket.
Yeah, but I mean, they win no matter what, too, because if you are rooting for that region,
there will be one EU trainer moving on.
Let's look at the teams for these trainers as well.
And we've talked about it before.
Amy Weedle was technically the first ever
Pokemon Go World Champion in the seniors division.
We were there casting that battle.
He was playing against a smaller pool,
but that pool was just as stacked
as the Elder Division as well.
So he is an extremely talented trainer.
Well, let's not call it Elder Division.
Oh, that's all right.
Well, technically.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
But figuratively,
We are the Masters division now everyone's the same one. Yeah, it's not like a 65 and plus division
I wasn't saying it was an elder division
Yes, that's true, I mean BV David a great example right up there young trainer and I don't know if he was competing at the time
But if he was he would have been in that division with any Guido and BV David one of our most accomplished players in the circuit
He's at the top cut. I know in Honolulu. He went pretty far there as long worlds has two regional titles multiple second
play titles and so this is gonna be a pretty fun matchup as we take a look at
the teams you know very similar archetypes both at the quad side both at
the nine tails both have you know a slightly bulkier walk I guess I'm
pulling us out that bulky both have a fairy of choice for this one it's going
to be the Tokyo's for PP David and we know going to be the Fortress both of
those fairies are much safer into nine tails than Ticket on it so I think that's
why they need to do it for more neutrality for more flexibility in the
some of those matches so that you don't get hard, you know, counter when you
save small like a tingle them or something and speaking of safety, the
water types, right? The water types, there is only a fire type to counter it,
which is so weird to say, but that fire type that does have the grass coverage
with the energy ball could be good against the impoleon could be good
against the quags are, but all the water types that are here, the impoleon,
the quags are the zoom rule and the opposing quags are from PV David.
I think are extremely safe in this matchup because even though, yes, you
You don't want to take those energy balls,
but the Ninetales doesn't want to take the damage from you
either, so I think it's going to be a lot of water Pokemon
in the arena really soon.
And that, absolutely right.
That actually played a huge role in the Emmy
Weediverse boom matchup.
In the very end, on charge of cards,
the Ninetales got the grass energy ball off
against the Quagsire at the very end to take it out
and win him the game, right?
And like, it's so weird, but the fire type is the counter
to the water type in this particular meta,
this matchup and you know even though Zermal on the side of BV David it's
really weird matchup because it's got hydro pump and play rough. If you bait a
play rough and they don't shield you're doing resistive damage so we are at the
water that it has to go for the harder hitting move just even take out grabbing
play into the nine tails and I think because of that the Zermal might be
really hard for BV David to play in my opinion right yes if you get land a
hydro pump against like the licky licky the forger's the force it's it's great
in theory, but so much energy, so much time,
and you're also using a three-train move.
It's so easy to play around if you're Emmy Weedle.
Well, a key difference between the Quagsires as well.
Emmy Weedle's Quagsire is shadow in running mudbomb,
and PVP David's Quagsire is gonna be the non-shadow
in running stone edge, which makes Impoleon safer as well,
because there is no ground coverage from PVP David,
and Polion is pretty much unchecked into that matchup.
I think it's gonna be super safe, super flexible,
And if you're able to get that energy advantage
or shield advantage, you know the pacing is quite quick,
has the community day attack of the Hydra Cannon.
So I'm looking for Emi Wiedel to try to lean on that
and pull in a little bit.
And we are gonna be locked into this European battle
between Emi Wiedel and PVP David.
All right, here we go.
It's going to be the Shadow Flag Star
for Emi Wiedel versus the Licky Licky.
And this matchup is kind of awkward
for the Shadow Flag Star.
It's not here, let's focus on non-shadow one.
because of that, Licky Licky still complied pretty well into a despite throwing resisted rollouts.
And once you take this first shadow ball, as you're going to see the damage here,
it's not great for the Quadsar because then once the Licky Licky can start protecting your leg,
then you start slowly getting at the body slam range. And that is the worry here for in the
Weedle, but there is no Stone Edge to worry about. So no protection from VP David.
And this is why some players run the mud bomb. It's more energy efficient than the
off the tail, then the stone
edge even and now we are going to get full call.
It's not like they got the licky, licky,
but it's going to pretty, pretty low.
And I think, I mean, we don't might be okay
just losing this match.
Knowing that the course law does not have to deal
with this licky, licky later.
It doesn't even go for the roll out there.
Just trying to make sure it's not swapped on.
It's going to land that damage and try to pivot
and try to knock it out with his own quagsire.
Maybe it has to take an awkward tail in the process.
Yes, he does have to take an awkward tail in the process.
That's not great for P&P David,
but he does get a significant mud shot advantage
to have energy for the back of my Pokemon,
what do you come in with?
Probably just the Corsula,
because you don't even know all the energies
resisted from them,
pulling on the bolt of the Corsula
that's gonna thrive here.
Yeah, but this sets up maybe there for a win condition
because the Ninetales of Shields,
or even Shields, even,
can play really well in holding on,
given how fast it cases.
So, because of that,
I actually thought that you know,
might have just came in with the more
and just absorbed some of that energy from the Quackside,
but instead wants to play a little bit safer
and wants to come in the Corsula.
Let's see if he's able to dance around the Ninetales
because VP David, he's feeling pretty comfortable about this.
He still has the liquidage as well,
but no, he just full sends the 9-2.
And this is going to be tough though,
because not only do you have to get through this course,
which didn't mess around and get to the power gym,
and just through the 9th shade here,
because he knows he could get a protect shield.
Also, he just needs some chip damage for this backline,
and the protect shield is huge,
because now as soon as you can get a hyper cannon off,
you can win this battle.
Going for the bait here, technically,
even though energy ball is also going to be neutral,
this does do a little bit less damage,
and you can't get the debuff,
So in me we don't instantly let's it through but these inverse are going to be weighing on him a little bit
That's right. First action is going to be shield from PB David. He's running out options
He has a catch potential though, and it gets really spicy in these two-turn matchups
So as I have a horse I am to all shields
This is actually quite icy for PB David and just doesn't go to move expecting
Yeah, he throws it right away because sometimes trainers are patient going for the catch
He just says I'm throwing it right away and I'm gonna try to win this game with the two protects your flex in the end
Didn't even need to use one of them as impoli on is able to take down BBB David
It's kind of a weird situation to be David. I think he thought any weirdo switch timers up time looking at it
He's look any weirdos locked into that matchup. BB Davis had a hundred energy
So even if he doesn't he expects, you know, I mean we're talking about your right away
He doesn't really get as much out of that matchup either, but any we don't he's up to shield skill confidence
He doesn't have to worry about a catch even if it's caught on licky licky
He can still finish all the nineties with a course. I love that because he played to every win condition boss
Oh, he'd be David
Maybe try a little fluster trying to figure out how to play it out
But at the end there he was running out of options and any we don't up a game against BV David trying to beat the first ever
two-time Pokemon Go Champion.
And the utility there from a Pokemon like the land Corsal,
just be able to come in, soak all the energy,
still win the matchup,
and then even get a protect shield in the backline matchup.
That is why it is so useful in the meta right now.
And a key reason, I believe you even said it,
that Trainers are bringing Malamar to the meta
to try to counter that play.
Are we gonna see a Malamar in this game number two
to try to counter that Corsal?
I feel like it could be a decent play because not only can you deal with the Corsula,
but you know you're seeing Empolion, right? So you at least have superpowers to throw
super effective damage into the Empolion as well. I haven't been a huge fan of Malomar,
but I feel like it might be time to bring it out. Okay, I swear the last time we casted
you were the biggest Malomar hater, but you've done a 180, but it's like, hey, maybe you're
right right it is an answer to the course of licky licky core has played into the
nine tells the flag start and being pulled out you only have to worry about the
gorgeous and any wheel hasn't been bringing it so it could be something it
could be useful you know I don't I don't hate it but I was never a now more
downer to to start the salt butters just count the stacks now more and taking a
lot of knockouts here in San Francisco but looks like these trainers are just
about locked into game number two and for PP David if he wants to avenge his
his friend, Boom, it tried to defeat in me,
Weedle, he has the same team as his good friend.
Can he do it here?
Can he reverse sweep?
Can he find the formula so far?
It is a decent lead for the Licky Licky.
This is a very neutral matchup.
And look at Pee Pee Davis, he is not messing around.
He does not want to see his nine tails on the field.
And coincidentally, I mean, Weedle doesn't
bring the nine tails for this one.
But double water plus the rock, fast attack,
Licky-licky are great neutral answers to that nine tails,
but Son of the field, Ami-Wido, now going for the octa-tile.
Maybe trying to go for triple octa-tile,
instead of the double-muff-muff.
The double-muff-muff is not enough.
Also, he's at, essentially, three octa-tile,
which means that he gets perfectly optimized every time,
and forced to be David to throw on that time,
and David wants to get his move ball
without having to finish shield.
He's got dangerously close to over-optimizing
and getting too much energy,
but he's working perfectly,
because now that is devastating for PSP David.
He thought he would throw maybe a mud shot person
he could get that attack off, but he doesn't.
And now these Clags are pretty healthy
coming in with the own opposing Clags.
Does he know he wins charge attack priority?
That is gonna be thrown for the swap.
What a beautiful catch attack anywhere.
He knows that PSP David is born with a charge attack priority
to thinks that he's a winning
and Emmy Rito is just gonna bank the energy for later.
Knows that he persists all these charge attacks
and Emmy Rito is down so far ahead in this matchup.
And it's going to be Corsula versus a Zoomroll in the backline.
There's going to be a lot of shields remaining.
Going for the stone edge here.
Yes, this is not very effective, but it's going to do a chunk.
This is not a shadow Clagsire.
So I'm pulling up, going to be able to take it.
No problem.
Has all that energy.
Has double hypercanon to zoom protect those remaining.
And he's using wonderful now.
I like that strategy.
Because this Clagsire is very healthy.
If you double shield this Clagsire right now,
you can come out of this matchup with a lot of help.
I expect a double down shield from David.
He's thinking about, no, actually just let's it go.
Yeah, the problem is this is Zermo, like I said, it's already sold to his moves, doesn't even have the ice team, the cheaper moves to pick with, and there's still two shields on the side of any Widow.
On top of that, Porcelain's a fantastic Niko match against Zermo.
PbDavid has got to land a hatch bump somewhere.
He, I think he already called the PbD.
There's still five footballs left, but he's such a talented player, and he sees the writing on the wall.
Can't he still make some match happen?
Well, let's do a little table setting right here.
and not only that, he has the Quagsire in the back
with an Aqua Tail loaded as well.
And he's gonna use his first protect shield of the battle.
Plus, he has this neutral God that is Galarian Corsla
that can be able to get through this
assumeable matchup, no problem.
He's trying to reach for the desperate Hydra Pump.
He is gonna be able to hit it.
Candy get it through a shield.
No, it is shielded as well.
Absolutely brutal PVV, David.
So much energy.
Unfortunately, just gets negated with the shield.
Only one damage goes through.
damage goes through and here comes a nice shape.
You'd be David not going to invest anything into the zero,
knowing that it's not going to be able to get to another group
with the fact that nice shape loaded.
Here comes Friar.
You need to land two Alcatel to even have a chance.
Two Alcatel isn't even enough.
If you'd be David trying to play it out here,
but there's still the Alcatel available,
but any reader could go for the combo play.
You'd be David might just full send it to avoid it.
Well, I think he's worried about the combo play
because he thinks that if you David does win
that charge attack priority,
Maybe he's worried about losing charge security
and wasting that attack.
Now he's waiting until there's no energy left
and then he's gonna throw the combo play
so that is smart from Enny Guido
and he's able to win it two to zero to advance.
Three ball flex for Enny Guido
as he closes out with a few more mud shots.
He might be the world champion of the Cedar submission,
but like you said, butters,
he might be the world champion of the Elder Division too.
I mean, he's well on his way.
He could be the first time ever, two-time Pokemon Go World Champion.
And he's just a couple of series away from getting to that coveted Winners Finals,
but also making it to Chase Center for Championship Sunday.
Hemi Weedow, a big name in the community ever since his World Champion title back in
2022 in London.
And he's had so many great performances throughout, a EYC champion, a regional champion.
I think it's been a few years since he's won a title.
Meanwhile, players like D.V. David have been on the rise, winning two regional battles since then.
And maybe somebody were like, I mean, we don't out of this, but no, he came back with a vengeance for this world championships in 2026.
And I mean, you know, he beat Boom 2-1, but even a more dominant victory against D.V. David with the same team, 2-0, and Magnum plays throughout.
And he knows he's inside.
He knows he's going to the up and tail on the charge attack party.
He makes a perfect catch and just closes it out with a bulky force glove.
He really sprinted ahead in that matchup.
He dominated the opening lead matchup fight,
completely optimizing his Quadsar throwing on charge attack priority
and forcing the licky-licky to go down while the Quadsar was very healthy.
Then that swap.
So he started out with such a lead.
And even though Pete P. David is an awesome player,
It was so hard for him to climb back and sprint back into this race.
Amy Weedle started on top and he ended on top.
He was able to defeat PvP David and boom,
two young phenoms that were running the same exact team.
Yeah, and you know, it's so, it was so early in the game
going that third off the tail on charge activity.
Some of you might be wondering,
why not just shield the PvP David?
But he's such a talented player, he knows.
If he shields that off the tail and gets the shot of all,
he comes away with no energy left
left and he just found a shield for no reason not knowing what's in the back right it's like it's
like such a checkmate situation doomed if you do doomed if you don't in that situation and
henry we don't just held on to pressure all the way throughout and that's why he had that three ball
flex man well he optimizes energy and he optimizes his experience right he's been at the championship
circuit all the way back in 2022 some of these trainers that have that reserve of experience
do really well in world competition.
One trainer who's up next is Marto Gaudi.
He is obviously a well accomplished trainer
with multiple titles, an international title,
regional titles as well, special event titles.
But he always shows out at world competitions,
ever since the first ever one.
And now look, he is in winners round number two
with the same opportunity as the two trainers
from Japan and Imi Wido just did
to advance into winners round number three.
That's right.
Always rise to the occasion on the big stage.
And if you're tuning in right now for the first time,
be sure to continue watching for so many reasons.
Besides just the battles, you get all these great Twitch trumps.
You get it for free just for watching.
And if you watch up to 60 minutes for Pokemon Go
and a lot of these other games that are going on right now
in their respective broadcasts, you get all these rewards.
Take a screenshot if you need to, zoom in and see it.
But with Pokemon Go, you get the exclusive ticket
on that the reigning world champion, Billsboy Hughes.
this same exact team that he used, but also it has exclusive worlds background after it.
And you know, but I know we're working the production, but I was watching this backstage as well.
So I got to get my twitch chop.
Oh, you got to. And I want to get a twitch badge as well, because we have an exclusive twitch
badge that will go right next to your name while chatting. It is an awesome flex here.
It's one of the best weekends of the year to be a Pokemon fan. Of course, you can get all of these
free items and if you're in the venue right now or at Pokemon xp there is so
much to do in San Francisco there are themed baseball games there are drone
shows at night it is just a Pokemon city right now that's right ten years
from now you're gonna be dropping this Pikachu batch in a twitch chat like
where did you get this I was like well I tuned into Pokemon World Championships
in 2026 where were you at when that happened and you don't want to be that
person right so you want to be the one that's dropping the emo flexing on
people. And if you are in the venue and you casually play Pokemon Go, I encourage you to
update that because some cool stuff is happening this weekend. And another weekend, some other
cool stuff is happening because a special Night Out EDM concert with special appearances
from Marshmallow and Allison Wonderland. Huge Pokemon fans in itself. It's going to be an
awesome night. Yeah, it's already so down Los Angeles, but if you're in the London area or
want to go out to London, November 10th is going to be that second concert. All right. Well,
I said it before we got Marzo Gaudet on stage. I think these trainers are just about ready and it's gonna be against Jai
One of the only Australian trainers that made it into date number two
I believe there was another trainer that has bounced back between Australia and North America
Yes, exactly, but the one trainer that has been in Australia this entire season and is carrying
Oceana on his shoulders has to be Jai.
Kevlin won the underrated players, I think, in our circuit, right?
The top part is, because you're an Oceana, there's not as many tournaments,
so he has gone to International 24.
This is the second world test, well, but no player is more synonymously well-known
and associated with Shadow of the Long Night Tales than they love Jai.
Brings it into almost every tournament.
I believe this is his seventh tournament
and bring Shadow of the Night Tales out of nine tournaments.
Both of his second place finishers
was with Shadow of the Night Tales,
and he finds a way to make it work in every single meta
that you can play it in.
Even in a meta where Cancel of the Night Tales is meta,
the hard counter to that variance.
Well, if he could find a way to make it work in this matchup,
he might be a Pokemon genius, because it has a lot of counters
on Mardo Gaudes' team.
He has the licky-licky that's strong into it,
the tank in the pond that's dominant into it.
He has the Dondozo and he has that shadow Kanto Ninetales
that is the fire type Ninetales
that will definitely counter that ice fairy Alolan Ninetales.
But otherwise there is an Altaria
on the side of Martel Gata's team,
but I feel like that Altaria is so free
because you're thinking that there's no way
that Jai is bringing an Alolan Ninetales into this matchup.
Another Pokemon that feels pretty free
If you can scare off the Altaria, it's definitely the Dondozo.
I was actually mistaken.
Jaya said three-time second-place finisher every time
with that Shadow of the Night just here we go.
It's Mark McCall, they first they love Jai,
Latian first Oceania, and it's gonna be an Altaria mirror match.
And there can be both points in this matchup.
So let's look at the Dragon Breath here to see if you can see
if when Altaria is taking more Dragon Breath damage
than the other.
I don't know if I can spot it yet,
but here comes the Sky Attack
into the first Altaria, just gonna let it go.
No problem.
The second Sky Attack is available,
but swap into the Licky Licky,
and now you have your own Licky Licky
and a Quagsire in the back,
but deciding to throw his energy a little chipping dip.
I like to swap with Marcel Galvez,
expecting that there might be a Quagsire in the back,
and that's exactly what is in the back.
But they go, Jai, look at this smart play from him.
Goes through the chip,
and now comes in with the Licky Licky,
because the Licky Licky not only has played
into Marcel Galvez, Altaria,
but there's no way he loses a switch of manners
now that he do that Sky Attack,
and has brought the HP of the liquid, liquid mode.
That was a smart play from Jai,
but it's not devastating for Marto.
Just because the Shadow Fragsire
does have Aqua Tail and Stone Edge,
in that matchup can get really awkward into the Tinketon.
Even though you resist the Geaton Hammer,
it does so much and you can only throw Aqua Tails in return
because the Stone Edge is obviously resisted.
Here comes the body save.
Now the timers are available for both of these traders.
Do we see another pivot?
And there it is, instantly getting out of the battlefield.
Marshall is going to come back into silk up a shadow ball.
And this is not bad for DeLuk Jai at all.
He just wants to get rid of the Sultry as soon as possible.
So that he quacks out, has placed his shine.
It's not like Wightsever doesn't have play into it,
but you're doing almost no damage for the mud shots.
And here comes Jai with another shadow ball.
Does Marshall go and throw up this first shield or just let this go?
I feel like it's going to be tough if you let it go,
but he does let it go.
It's going to be all banking on the hopes of this tinketon.
In the back, it's going to have a tough road ahead of itself,
because it's going to have to finish off this tinketon.
finish off the Licky Licky and could have had to finish off that Clive there.
Instead, he comes in with his own Licky Licky to do Ticket Thons work for him.
And March of Gold, they're trying to put everything on the team tongue.
Like you said, it does have a decent matchup into Clive,
despite the type disadvantage as March of Gold, they're going forward.
The body slam, knowing that two shields are still around for Day Love Dive.
Does Day Love Dive shield it?
No, let's it go. A huge call from Day Love Dive.
But this is risky though, because then you start to have to shield bulldozes.
the lower you get, it's riskier and riskier.
So here comes that first protect shield from Jai.
And do you pivot out?
You don't want to get farmed down here.
There goes the pivot.
There is a one protect shield advantage,
but there's already two AquaTails loaded up for Jai.
And because this is the shadow class as well,
even though it's only neutral AquaTail,
it will definitely add up,
especially with the mod shot to boots.
Let's see if March of Gold is able to get to
kick it on Hammer and land it,
or go for the bake with the bulldoze.
But back to back, AquaTail is available.
Markzagal, you're gonna save one shield just in case the ultar could get to Flamethrower
because that's still gonna do more damage than the Octatail.
And if Jai misses a swap here and allows this Tinketon to bank extra energy,
that could be the lose condition for Jai.
So does he just stay in here with the Quadsire and force energy and maybe even save his protect shield for the backline?
Here comes that bulldoze.
And it's instantly no shielded from Jai!
It's not gonna be enough to knock out the Quadsire!
And can you get that debuff?
You have the Licky Licky, you can't swap!
Does he go for the swap?
No, there is no swap and no protections remaining.
Mardo Gaudi is running out of options.
I love the play from Chai.
He knows that even if Mato Gaudi goes for a kick
to the hammer, he can just land a flamethrower from the ult
target, now goes for the kick to the hammer,
and Chai calls it perfectly.
Now that it's in Skye's attack ring, Chai knows
he has a win condition, unless Mato Gaudi catches the Skye's
attack on the wiki-wiki.
But it's going to be really hard as long as he goes
in between a fair win, and that's exactly what he does.
Because of the two-turn fast attack,
it gets a one-turn fast attack.
It's so difficult to swap in that position.
The not very effective attack takes out the tickets on.
Now the dragon that should be enough to finish off this
licky, licky year.
And it looks like Jai is going to take game number one.
All right.
What a performance from Dave Love.
Jai on one of the biggest stage, a very dominant force
in Oceania, but coming to the world stage
and taking on a Titan like Martin Galdi's so easy feet.
But he played that so well.
And again, he made the calculation.
Bait or no bait, he could win that game
as long as he's he got the final show for Markzavalli.
You can see it, right?
He also reacted with the win.
Markzavalli shielded that final up until on his last shield.
He's like, oh, you gave me the wingtron I need.
I now just need to go to playing door
and I win this entire game.
And with the FG lead on the backside,
maybe it was doomed for Markzavalli either way.
Yeah, and I believe that Marto was the aggressor
a little bit with the switch timer.
As soon as the switch timer was coming up,
he was pivoting out of it.
But he ended up in a negative situation
where he led a Pokemon build down
And then there was too many healthy Pokemon in the back,
plus a bad matchup for that Tinketong
against the Kwakzar in the back.
And even though he played it well,
he just couldn't get over that hurdle.
So this matchup so far has seemed really fluid,
extremely neutral.
Both trainers running the Altaria and Licky Licky
and the Marto side running the Tinketong,
Jai side running that Kwakzar.
So both of these trainers though,
they could play out this entire matchup really safe.
Marzo is one of the best trainers ever in Pokemon Go PDP.
When he won his LAIC title, I called him the Go at the time.
He was at a zoomerall status because in these big competitions,
he is an insane force.
He has been dominant in pretty much every single world's competition,
and he's keeping it up in 2026 as well.
That's right.
Marzo Galdi, first ever worlds in London, got a fifth place finish.
And then in his second ever world's,
he missed the qualification for Yokohama.
The next world's, he gets third place,
makes it to the winners and losers finals.
That's that trophy though, the international,
the world's trophy, I should say.
Last year, a little bit harder, right?
He came in, probably as the best player,
both decorated, but in some top matchups.
And this year, refocus,
didn't maybe have a split of a regular season, right?
Didn't win any tournaments like the previous season,
but he won't show a lot less tournaments.
But he is locked in when it counts,
and now he really needs to lock in
with a second game, the fourth of game three.
Well, it seems that pattern is every other year for Vardo, right?
Every other year, good for him right now,
he's on that other year cycle,
where he does really well at the World Championships.
But to keep continuing to do well,
you'll have to take out Lovejoy,
who of course is holding up the entire continent of OCEANIA right now
because he is the last remaining trainer from that region.
And he is just one game away from taking out one of Pokemon
Go's most historic players in Marto Gaudi.
And to do so, he's going to need to do it with this double
flying team composition that we've seen from him throughout
day number one as well.
The ABA flying, but it makes a lot of sense as a Corbinite
beast at the time, whereas the Altarite loses.
And the Altarite beast in 9 kills, whereas the Corbinite loses.
We have that bold team Water, Dale, that's going to be done.
Those are making his appearance for the first time in this
matchup and they love Jai, want to shield this up going straight for the payback
but only through one sandbag so could have gotten a little bit more energy you
can see him grimace a little bit but it's not the worst situation for him
we'll see if it makes a difference now I mean it's only one sandbag difference
and the damage and energy. And a protective advantage for that save
light in the battle could be devastating for Jai. A Pokemon that we haven't seen
so much here at worlds but we've seen it do really well in the go battle league
leaderboard with multiple top trainers getting first place with that Pokemon on
their team composition counter swapping into the licky-licky and this is hard to deal with. As soon
as you do a chip and dip against a licky-licky it's hard for the other one to win just like it was
with a lick atone matchup back in the day. I love the Dressroom Multicolby as well bringing in the
Dondo Supreme, the Shadow Saviour. Shadow Saviour is actually not even that bad with licky-licky but
now they seem to neutralize the licky-licky with his own after that chip damage. Shadow Saviour can
hit mutually into everything remaining in Dablam's dice line, the double flier. Format does have a
have a little bit extra residual energy, so that's G to note.
Also, G to note is that they love Jai,
does have a charge like priority in this near-match
that could play in handy for future games,
facing this current one.
And charge attack priority in Pokemon Go, PVP,
does go to the Pokemon with a higher attack stat,
and if you see that they are a mirror,
that means one of the trainers has that attack stat
higher than the other, Licky Licky, when you appraise it.
Now we're gonna come in with that Corponite
almost at the payback, gonna need that payback energy
to knock out, but with these sand attacks
that are just adding up in Love Giant's kind of shaking his head.
He doesn't want to have to use his left protector.
It's just a body slam bait.
And he uses his shield on that body slam bait.
Yeah, you can see he doesn't like that.
But a really smart bait from Margellar
because he knows they love Giant.
He knows the preserve.
And he knows shields on the air cutter.
Yeah, this might be still OK, though.
If he gets sanded down before the next few streets,
can he get to the Shadow Ball at time,
goes for the body slam instead?
This probably won't get you.
But the problem is it might put the Corbinite
in Shadow Ball range to just take it out
before you get the payback call.
Let's see here come the save line.
And Halo try, one for the air corner.
I mean, you have to respect it.
You have to respect it.
Yeah, there's really no reason to even go for it
because you don't get one move off.
But just go for it anyway.
He can't get another one off.
Maybe later on we'll see.
But Montagaldi in a fantastic position
and entry lead on the save line
and has to shield advantage.
There's just no way he doesn't shield the sky attack.
And back to back foul play should close it out
and force the game three.
He's just so far ahead here
because he has that protection.
He already has double foul play.
He can throw that now.
And as you remember, there was an air cutter thrown
and it was protected.
So maybe even if there is an air cutter that is reached,
it won't be enough to knock out the shadow save line.
So one more foul play and a couple of shadow claws
means that we're gonna have a tight series here.
Mardo Gaudé is gonna be able to win game number two.
All right, we have a series on our hands.
As far as all they go,
we're gonna three ball flex and come back
with a vengeance in game number two.
Like you said, he performs really well in worlds every other year,
but this is also every other year for Jai.
This is his second world.
Didn't do so well in the first one,
but he brought his trusty shadow little ninjas this time around.
And he's looking to pave his own story.
And we're definitely well aware that anything can happen,
especially day number two at a World Championships.
It doesn't matter if you are less known
or if you're one of the heroes of Pokemon GO PDP.
Anyone can do it and make it to that Championship Sunday.
but for Marko Gaude, he has been relying a lot on that done though.
So he actually said it's been his MVP Pokemon,
but bringing out that wild card pick of Shadow Sable, I really like it.
I mean, it didn't really matter because he was so far ahead in that battle
that he didn't really get to show what it can do,
but I really like it in this matchup.
And I got an interesting stat line for you.
Shadow is a homey, Henry, home size Henry here, dropping the facts.
That was they love Jai's first game lost this entire tournament.
This is the world, right?
This isn't a small reach, you know, this is not an international, this is a world championship.
He's facing off against every world competitor and hasn't even dropped a game until now.
I mean, you can see how comfortable he is. I've been pretty comfortable too about him
lost a single game. That's his first loss. Mark Zagala being the one to do it.
11-0 meeting up to that game. Absolutely ridiculous. And you could see him cringe
midway through that battle. He thought he had lost it there. So maybe his first real mistake
in 12 battles with these bright lights.
Insane from Lovejoy.
And the fact that this is his first battle loss
gives me even more confidence
that he can bounce back here
in advance to winners round number three.
But to do so, you have to take out one of the best.
Mardo Gaudi is gonna lead.
And he's coming out swinging with his signature Pokemon,
the Shadow of the Night Tales.
And there's not a clear answer for the Licky Licky.
However, I see this matchup play out.
It's actually not that bad for Shadow of the Night Tales.
the extra shadow damage actually make this matchup almost favored for the shadow alone.
Nineteen just see how much this weather ball does and you understand I'm saying and if you
get landed that's even better gonna build up to it.
Watch all they have to respect the potential.
That's the way he has so many answers.
He's triple strong.
Nineteen.
It doesn't matter.
But look, he's one more away.
This next weather ball can't KO the licky licky and forces the shield for multiple
getting well.
That's really good news for love drive because there was nowhere for that alone and Nineteen
to go in the back with that Don Dozo and the Ticket Ton. Now suddenly, Mardo is just trying
to get extra energy on his Licky Licky. This body slam will be enough to knock out. Love
Gaius thinking about it, but Licky Licky is almost at the next body slam. So he says,
okay, you did your job. You got to be the protector. Thank you. My favorite Pokemon
ever. Now I'll bring in another ice type Pokemon, but not yet. Probably the Korn for Night
First. Yeah, actually, I'll bring in Lapras. The M.J. Lapras is still pretty nice as you
have the Skullbast to hit Korn into everything. You have perfect coverage right? Nothing's
from this is Musa combination.
Gonna put everything on the Corvette and said,
dude, this is a crazy risky line.
ABA reaches the shadow,
canceled nine, there's just those four.
Full sense, the risky line,
puts everything on the Corvette,
doesn't shield the Lapras yet again.
The problem is, where's that energy
and shield advantage gonna go
in the back line against that Ticketon?
And there is the form down.
You have all the energy, you have even a Skull Bash.
This is a Skull Bash Lapras.
That's gonna do a lot of damage
if you bring in the Dozo here
to try to soak up some sparkling arias and it said you take that skull
back here comes the skull back no not yet it's gonna be able to lay in this is
exactly what they love to I want shield or one shield down right much like I
just want to shield this but now you set up the corner knife for the tingleton
and much of all they can't really just pass that the sound as they look at
reaching on us one guy throws right before the surface reach and much of
all the nodes it is just a sparkly all right but this chip damage is absolutely
crucial for they love Jai. And you can't really even fairy went down but he's gonna
try he swapped in to try to get that fairy went down and now he's shaking his
head a little bit because he's on a protect shield disadvantage against that
shadow quarter knife. Gonna go for the early bulldoze trying to get a key debuff.
He has a 50-50 chance to get the defense to drop. Kian Marto secure it. Yes! He gets
but the bulldoze no shield is absolutely useful they love Jai as well
because even the resistance on Hammer can't be quite a fist. He just has to
save one shield for the surf load on Nandos.
I don't even know if Nandos can get the two surfs in the end game.
And because of that, they love track.
You're pretty comfortable.
Markzikov, they're doubling down on the base
and does get the first shield.
And can he get another debuff here?
So that defense has been dropped by two stages.
No, one for two.
Here comes the air cutter.
There's only one protection remaining.
It's not very effective.
Lovejoy is also going for a boost himself,
trying to get an attack raise here.
It doesn't get it.
No, he comes up empty.
There is two water types in the back.
They both have really low health.
Here comes the payback.
He might think Mardo is gonna no shield the air cutter.
He actually throws the payback.
Is this gonna be enough
until the fairy typing of the decadon?
Yes!
That's absolutely massive.
Don Dosa has too much work for it to do.
They love Shai.
No, there's no reason not to shield this.
Only a few more sand attacks away
from getting to the back to back air cutter.
He also has a catch opportunity.
However, Mardo,
all the trivia to get to the server time.
There could be a potential test.
So this is gonna be super tough for you.
You can't predict when the catch is happening.
Just use your watch or attack.
Does he get the catch off?
Does he get the serve off?
Wait a second, it's gonna be so close.
It's gonna come down to Side Wave versus Waterfall.
Both of this, he just looked up for some luck,
for some help.
If the serve is gonna be a knockout,
it's Side Wave versus Waterfall.
And it looks like Side Wave is gonna be able to do it.
Oh, my God!
Waterfall, man!
Don Dozo, one HB, even Marshall Goulding is absolutely in shock.
And Marshall Goulding, every other year, he is back.
Don Dozo is his MVP for a reason.
In a matchup where you have fast attack versus fast attack, one's resistant,
one is neutral, Marshall can't believe it.
His entire fate in this tournament just shifted on the back of that giant whale.
Dondo so as he's able to secure the defensive game number three to move on
Pull the rabbit out of a hat and then some absolutely wild
Endgame there already have to see the replay on that because I'm looking at I'm like
Yeah, three turn move as well into one turn. You don't even know you got three waterfalls off
At that low of health against side wave
Mardo is one of the most talented trainers of course.
Dondo does his MVP.
He knows that Pokemon.
He didn't think it could happen either.
Absolutely wild.
Absolutely wild from one of the top players in the world.
I mean, that's just like, even with all the skill in the world,
I don't think most people can pull that off,
but what a crazy, crazy end game there, too.
I mean, I think the problem is, I think a slight miscue from Dale Ajay.
He had the option to potentially even go lap race, right?
right to try to get that sparking area to try to force the energy from the down
though so at that point they have to just go for the waterfalls down you know
and then that's you know and you might get nervous right you might get nervous and
throw the surf and honestly at this point we're all thinking there's no way
this is the waterfall will take up the lap at the time but three waterfalls is
insane and it survives nine sideways to to endure that at that health range
Wow, this world is a real deal.
Well, Pokemon Go Worlds is where miracles happen.
And for Marto, a miracle did just happen.
And he is advancing.
And he is one step closer to his ultimate dream
of becoming the Pokemon Go World Champion.
And being in that competition tomorrow at Chase Center,
one of the most exciting matches that I've ever seen.
And LumJai, who had not dropped a single game
the entire tournament, just dropped two in a row
to Marto Galle.
Yeah, heartbreaking loss, different level of joy,
but he's still in this tournament in March of all day.
A regional champion, an international champion.
He's missing the final piece, the world champion,
and he's well on his way to do it.
But we got some more crazy matches up.
We got a head-to-head matchup, Japan versus Japan coming up,
and that's gonna be a real exciting one.
Stay tuned for that one,
as we have four incredible actions here
at Pokemon Go World Championships.
Welcome in trainers. I'm here
with some of the best trainers
in the world and there are worlds
qualified. I know that you've been
battling a lot in the go battle
league and a lot of trainers at
home. They're not able to enjoy
the tournament competitively, but
maybe they're in GBL. You see,
you know what? I want a strong
team. I want to compete. I want to
compete. I want to compete. I want
I want a strong team. I want to compete. I want to play like my hero Aero. Aero, what are you currently running in GVL?
Okay, so I'm currently running. Haseung Electrode, Shadow Wipesire and Shadow Swanna.
The goal of the team is to save all your shields for Swanna and let it rain there.
Do you have any moveset recommendations? I know Swanna gets gust and that's pretty powerful.
I would run gust, Aqua Jet, fly on Swanna on Electrode as Kim Ting is swift is.
I would run wild charge and energy ball and you always want stone edge on quagsire mudbox not a real move set
Thank you so much, Eric. I know you've got a match coming up
So I'll see who else we can find and best of luck you next round. Thank you sweetie. I
Just bumped into out of pocket who I know as the number one quagsire fan and I've asked him as well
He's one of the best trainers in North America pocket. What are you running in GBL right now?
So I actually hit the legend rank running Quags RGBL, but very recently I've been enjoying a team that consisted of Shadowbug by Fortress, Dondozo, and Wikileki.
I like to call the team the Rotators because when both Fortress and Dondozo use their fast attacks to kind of like twist a little bit, like Dondozo is really cool.
He just like a, he's like a little like, like he charges up a twist to throw the waterfalls and it's a lot of fun.
You got to teach me that move after we finish this interview, but I wanted to ask you, you mentioned the waterfall Dondozo.
What other movesets would you recommend for this team?
team. So Fortress, Fortress really excels with flying debuffs. So you know with bug-flying
basket pressure, it'll either lower their defenses with a sand tomb or lower their attacks with a
rock tomb. Dundoso, it really likes the cheapest target possible. It's gonna how
slow waterfall is. So you run surfing and outrage with it. And then Licky Licky,
you just run roll out, shot above body slam. Awesome, Paka. Any advice for playing the team?
Do you have a safe swap you always go to Licky Licky in that situation or what? I'd say like 99% of the time is Licky Licky
I would only really safe swap down doza if you're like they do not have
Electrode or a jump flop or something that really shuts it down because I'm those those extremely good energy
But it's just way more likely to get a finite really tough matchup pocket. Thank you so much
I know you have a match coming up. So I'll let you run. Let's see who else we can find I
Am here with one of North America's rising stars
This is Susnitz Eater, who burst onto the stage just a couple years ago.
He's qualified for Worlds this year as well.
Susnitz, I'm so curious, because your team this weekend is cool,
but what are you running in Go Battle League?
Yeah, so Go Battle League is a little different from show six.
Right now, I'm kind of preferring to use glaring, wheezing, shadow glaring,
wheezing with sludge and brutal swing.
I think it has really great neutral play into a lot of the fairies
that people are leading right now, such as the Florgis.
Not as great to the Ticket Tons, but there's always some neutral play there.
And then it also is really good into the fighters and it does a lot of damage to all the other things like ghost man team and
In the back I use a wiki and man team to both defux the Pokemon that always seem to get the job done
I really like Larry reason but the ground weakness is tough to overcome
So I like that you paired it with man team because man team just dominates those matchups
If you have any moveset recommendations for man team and for licky-licky. Yeah, so look you lucky wise
We're just looking at the standard rollout body slam and shadow ball and then man team same thing here
I was playing against a licky licky yesterday and I got hit with an earthquake, which was the first surprise, but then he threw four more rollouts and I said, oh, yeah, this is a body slam.
It was a shadow ball.
Shadow ball earthquake is also a move set that you might see from time to time.
Daily advice on playing the team.
Do you lead the man team?
Do you swap a specific Pokemon?
Yeah, so I like leading the glare and wheezing.
It feels like we can always do a bunch of fairies and catch out onto one of our pokey Pokemon, the licky winky, or the man team.
the man team and the energy is always going to use a later because whenever we
get in the situation where we're throwing neutral sludges those are going to be
hitting for a lot of damage against things like cookie and man team and it
feels really good to have that energy and sweep with it later on.
Alright so since I know you have a match coming up so I'll let you run. Let's get
back over to the stream everybody and let us know how you're doing in the Go
Battle League this weekend.
Welcome back Pokemon trainers to the Dondo Zofan Zone also known as the
2026 Pokemon go world championships. My name is home size Henry here on the desk
with the one and only Luthor Pikachu. We just got to watch one of the greatest
games we've seen all weekend. Marto Galday with one HP and a dream. The
Don Dozo that could he's moving on to the winner semifinals. That gives me
which is incredible. Honestly Don Dozo is truly living the life of a showgirl
right now up there on center stage here at the Pokemon World Championships. It
was absolutely fearless in the face of those side wave farm downs and I will now be forever
more a Dundos believer here in Pokemon Go.
So that brings Marto Galday up to the winners semi finals where Marto Galday is going to
be battling against M.E.
Weedle.
Now on the other side of the bracket we have two very talented trainers from Japan in the
other side of the winners semi finals.
The field on the other winners side is narrowing quite considerably at the top we have Hiromaru
with that incredible Shadow of Pound on and Nantono,
who is running the Glice Score,
the Shadow of Glice Score and the Pangoro,
and at the bottom we have M.E. Weedle and Marto Galday.
So all across the board, it really seems like trainers
who have gone more outside the meta with more,
let's say non-conventional picks.
We have the potential for a Don Jozo in the winners finals,
a Shadow of Pound on, a Shadow of Glice Score.
People who have thought outside the box
and tried to bring more Antimedia Pokemon,
It's really paying off at this turn of it.
There's a really nice mix of those tried and tested favorites,
the Licky, Licky, the Nine-Telt, the Man Time,
for example, that we're seeing.
But I think the one thing I like about these more
kind of innovative picks, let's say,
are that they're still filling the same roles
that a lot of the counter-fucks are.
The Alolan Marowak, for example,
being that tried and tested ground type,
is being replaced by Pokemon Light, the Hip-Hound,
or even the Glyscore.
And at the same way, Glyscore fills that double role,
it's your ground type user,
but it's also your flyer on your team as well.
So it has a lot of flexibility,
all cooked up into one slot.
freeing yourself up with some more intimate options like that charge bug.
I'd love to see that.
And here we go, the battle between two of the best players from Japan,
Hiromaru versus Kanto no.
This matchup is going to be incredible on the left.
Hiromaru has really relied on the shadow hip out on with its lightning fast
pacing with sand attack incredible coverage into the flyers with
weather ball rock and those hard hitting earth powers has been
a very strong Pokemon that he's brought to almost every game.
But on the other side, there's Kanto no who was really favorite the Shadow Glide score a different kind of ground time
Not necessarily having that rock coverage
But has sand tune which can apply debuffs and really ramp a wing attack damage
And if you're trying to no shuttle sand to minutes in acrobatics, that's basically going to be one shotting a lot of Pokemon
Yeah, that's gonna spell disaster for sure a Pokemon. I've got my eye on however
Is this Pangoro you have the karate chop and the close combat to counter Pokemon like the Licky Licky on the opposing side
And obviously, Tengu-Tong not going to appreciate that too.
The key thing, however, for me, is the same type of tap-bone as the Night Slash
that you've got to be able to apply pressure into that Jellison.
Pangoro does look like it could, that definitely restricts the lines here for Hiromaru,
because you wouldn't necessarily look at a Pokemon like Hip-Hound on and think
Hip-Hound doesn't like fighters.
However, because the only way to hit fighters for even neutral damage would be at Ars-Power,
which does take 13 set attacks to get to,
is at a pretty significant pacing disadvantage.
And now when, when you factor in the fact you have a Jellison, you have a Licky-Licky,
and even the Kanto Ninetales, there's identical pacing there with the Pangoro, but Pangoro wins
to our acceptability. Even if you get it on the Fairy-type Ticket-tongue, Ticket-tongue is a Fairy
Steel-type. Close combat is a lot of damage, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is absolutely right,
and this is a very Pangoro-intensive set, because it doesn't really seem like this is
outside to ever bring in the fandom. Yeah, it does have a lot of flexibility right now,
and as you said, as long as you can avoid things like the Fairy-Win, there's a lot of play to be had.
There is a lot of offensive pressure, however, with Pokemon like that, Ninetales in play,
You have to make sure you're avoiding those embers and not allowing your opponent to get the energies up
But let's take a look at the leads electrode versus glyscor. This is not what hero Maru was hoping to see immediate safe switch
Into the Kanto Ninetales Kanto Ninetales will be answered with the Licky Licky
But a couple wing attacks are thrown there by the glyscor and getting an energy head start to a Pokemon like Shadow of Kanto Ninetales
Can really help it get ramped up and potentially try to flip this batch out
I can certainly help things in the endgame right now
the Licky Licky just happy to absorb the attacks that the Ninetales is throwing its way and in turn can retaliate with this shadow ball.
Nice defensive play on Hiromaru's side to go for the shield here.
Getting a shadow ball shielded is a big swing of momentum over to the Kanto Ninetales,
which that is a lot of energy down the drain, only one hit point advantage goes to the shield.
Kanto no is going to be no shielding once again, but before he's even able to make it up a shadow ball,
the Kanto Ninetales, that energy advantage going to be able to outpace.
So Kanto no is just going to cut his losses and settle for the body slam.
Exactly 40 slump just gonna be able to do some good damage into the shard of varying off the 9 tails
It goes on shield as well takes it down into that red zone
But there's so much energy up on 9 tails aside of the filters that to all these weather balls
Licky-licky goes down there's so much energy to be at least wow what a form down the bait from here
I'm on the goal shield
Cartono what a call stone cold bait call weather ball will do almost nothing
The energy ball is available and now Contono puts up the protect shield. What a dazzling call
So much pressure from that energy ball that was on the nine tiles
It's not even going to be able to find this mark now because the shield that was preserved so beautifully on that face has been initiated on that polytote
However, polytote does still have to deal with this electrode on the opposing side. This ice beam will be hitting for super effective damage
This is a shadow polytote. This is going to do a lot of damage here tomorrow with things to the options
Oh, what's up the last second protect shield gets the shield call right, but that's gonna set up the Glide core with a shield advantage
Yeah, last second shield
But I think that is exactly what the electrode needs.
It's got that energy up.
The Glyscore on the opposing side is going to be vulnerable to the energy ball coming through.
Huge amount of damage.
But once again, farming up on that Glyscore side.
With the Glyscore having this energy advantage,
Glyscore should actually be in a pretty good position.
Going to reach for the acrobatics.
No protect shields in play.
This will not pick up the one Hiko,
but this is going to be a lot of health gone from Licky Licky in a split second.
Yeah, that shadow barrier, boosting up its attack as well, making it even more formidable.
Licky Licky does have the opportunity now to go for one of these body slams.
There's not a lot of HP remaining on this Gliscor and Contono allowing it to go down.
Contono may have to try and go for a butt shot down but it does not seem like it's possible.
The Licky Licky has too much health to speak of and now Contono is in a very difficult position.
You kind of need the farm ground because you need the energy to be able to outpace the electrode.
But if you can't get the farm down this could be dangerous.
Force the fire off the weather ball. This will be game over for the Licky Licky
but the electrode is still lurking in the back.
That's a good point actually. The electrode is really the nemesis against this.
Poly Toad being able to hit with electric and grass type coverage.
So all the energy being up on Contono's side is going to be critical.
There's the ice beam, but is not able to get to it.
Hiromaru had one thundershock residual.
The charge attack by Oriyatai goes to the electrode.
And that's going to be a game one win for Hiromaru.
Oh my goodness, what an incredible end game there.
The electrode coming in, being able to get the edge and get the KO.
Fantastic play coming through on both sides of the field.
But ultimately Hiromaru able to take game number one in this set.
That fake call by Contono was incredible!
The Stone Cold instant no shield, daring him to throw the energy ball, and he did not.
But Hiromaru was still able to manage energy perfectly, ensuring that Electrode had one residual.
So Contono basically had to throw energy against the Licky Licky.
The Polytope was not going to be able to hang on to a body slam,
so we had to throw in just hope there was not any residual energy on the Electrode,
but there was, and that is as close as a game could possibly get.
You can see the damage coming through from these body slams though as well, putting in a huge amount of work.
But at the same time, Ninetales being able to get that farm down and have all this energy on the board.
Even though this was a fantastic no shield, the fact that there was another energy ball just able to come to and force that shield to finally be utilized meant the pressure was constantly on from Hiromaru's side.
And for Hiromaru realizing that he could have actually made the back to back energy balls as he was able to survive that mudshot, a little bit unfortunate for him.
but he was still able to get that win.
It's a body slam pressure way to protect shield.
He's rid of a second body slam,
forced a weather ball, and then it was a race.
Four mud shots away from the game winning ice beam,
but four thugger shots away from the game winning wild charge.
Electrode has the higher attacks
that winning charge attack priority.
Wild charge fells the polydode.
And Hiromaru, only one win away from the winners finals.
Honestly, that nine tells was the star of the show for me,
being able to have so much pressure with all that energy,
but also finding a way to navigate against Pokemon like the Gliscor on the Polytodes
if it doesn't usually like to get the alignment against.
Now these bannalors making last second adjustments, they know how important this game number two is.
We've got double lock ins, Contono versus Hiromaru, a trip to the winners finals on the line.
The leads are revealed, but that's not what Hiromaru was hoping to see
as it's Licky Licky staring down Pangoro.
But the Pangoro is here, it's out in the leads and it is forcing that Licky Licky to retaliate.
We're going to be able to see the Ninetales in play, and once again, Pangora on the offensive.
Pangora will instantly lock in a Night Slash. This does prevent the Canto Ninetales from getting a full Ember Sneak.
Night Slash connects. Contono dances out of the matchup, as him comes Licky Licky to basically clean up this Ninetales.
Ninetales going through the weather ball here. Dan, we know Licky Licky is going to be able to take this attack.
No shield needed to be utilized on Contono's side here. Going to be easily able to sponge that up, and can retaliate with the body slam.
There's a lot of vulnerability left on this Ninetales though, so it's going to be going to invest his shield into the Ninetales.
This is going to be tough, no shield comes, no body slam connects, that's going to be the end of that Ninetales.
But now Hiromaru does have the potential to try and massively overfarm with the Licky Licky.
Licky Licky into the Pangoro is a very negative matchup, but Potential's Hiromaru is able to overfarm quite a bit
and basically trade hit points in exchange for energy that energy could actually get some critical damage onto the Pangoro
and try and set up that his Suni electrode in the back to sweep.
Contono has been able to reset that timer as well, so there is the utility to switch once you've gotten enough energy up on your Licky Licky on your side of the field.
But again, you can just start going for these body stamps, chipping away. There's another one ready to go.
Another body stamp, body stamps flying left and right in this Licky Licky mirror.
Kira Maru going to look to try and over form, and that's exactly what he's going to go for.
Over forming, playing to the charge, Tiberity Type but does not win it.
with a grimace there as she was hoping to be able to have the back-to-back body
same to throw at that Pengoro. But now the Licky Licky is deep into the red HP.
Yeah, Licky Licky does have her reputation for throwing his weight around here,
but we could be here till midnight if we keep seeing these body slams just going left,
right and center and no one comes through. But look at that, we're just curing a knockout.
Pengoro joins the field.
That afford to the Electro is always going to be behind by a turn.
No baits here going straight for the close combat.
Here tomorrow we'll invest a protect shield.
The Electro does get an Energy Ball head start, but it's the Glyscor in the back, and we saw that Glyscor does not get one Hiko by an Energy Ball.
Exactly, Energy Ball able to come through, as you've said, Contono knowing that this is going to be safe, doesn't have to use a shield.
The Glyscor with such healthy HP right now is going to be able to hang on and in a position to get its Santume off against this Electro.
The Santume is going to be no shield, but this is going to be hitting for neutral damage onto the Grass Electro type.
No shield comes out from Hirovaru, that doesn't do a lot of damage, and the switch timer should be up momentarily after this energy ball.
Kontono letting this second energy ball come through, however, this is going to be able to secure the KO onto that guy, so it will go down and now all eyes turn onto this Pangoro to try and even out the score for its trainer.
And Pangoro could just look to try and fully farm down the electro, makes the last second energy ball, but it really just feels like it's too little too late Pangoro even flexing as it puts up the protect shield.
There's a switch into Licky Licky, but the energy is just not going to be enough.
Licky Licky needs to have back-to-back body sands. It is not there.
Pangoro, as long as it clicks this next Night Slash, should be able to close out the game
and even up the series for Contono.
This is exactly what Contono needed. Be able to get this Pangoro down against the Licky Licky
is what we're storing the leaders, what we're seeing in the endgame,
and it's a fantastic way to even out the scores as this Electro takes the final few shots.
Now the Pangoro, I don't believe, was fought in game number one, but in game number two,
We instantly saw why we had identified that at Team Preview.
That Pangoro just felt unstoppable.
You switch the Ninetales into it, bam, there's already a Night Slash.
After the Ninetales has gone, In comes Licky Licky.
And unlike when there's a full HP Ninetales,
where sometimes they can flip Licky Licky,
once the Ninetase has landed,
there's not really a whole lot you can do,
other than just try and over farm,
and it just was never enough.
And the shield preservation was great as well.
Being able to utilize that on the Pangoro,
considering that the Electro did have a decent amount of energy
stored towards that endgame,
The energy balls would have put it into a bit of a detrimental spot,
but because you could shield it up, keep retaliating with the Karate chop and then that light slash damage,
it just meant the component was fully in the driving seat.
And I don't even know what adjustments you can really make.
I'm looking across here, Amaru's team, and I'm trying to find a Pangoro counter, and I just don't see one.
Allegedly Tinketongue, but it's better no shield or a close combat on your Tinketongue,
though that does a serious amount of damage.
That's only two-thirds of your health bar gone in a split second.
taking a look though across I mean the karate tops for example they're not
going to be doing too much for Jellison but at the same time Jellison is not
looking super strong into this matchup you don't want to have to take the night
slashes against the poly toad is going to be a little bit of a wash so I feel
like that poke one still has to stay firmly on the bench it's tough if you
don't feel like a bit of a desperation bring there up maybe if you can get it
aligned onto the Gliscor and even that Gliscor if it's up energy you don't
really want to take a shadow acrobatics so I feel like that's what
complicates this matchup so much is with the Gliscor and with the Pangoro, it's
two Pokemon that can very easy get out of hand with a Shield of Antige, so as
Hiromaru, if you see a lead matchup in which neither one is there, you have to
be very particular about how you manage it. You want to try and over farm, not
give your opponent a free switch in into something like that Gliscor, or if you go
down a Shield for Switch of Antige, Switch of Antige doesn't really help when you
don't really have a counter to Pangoro on this team. So I think that the
combination of the Gliscor and the Pangoro, whether they're brought or not to
game number three will have a pretty significant influence over how hero maru has to try and play
this game for those who have watched the competitive scene for a couple of years you can remember back
to i believe was the north american international championships 2023 which was the charizard meta
the moment you gave up a shield in came a charizard and you were swept the game was over very very
similar vibes here where you do not want to give up a protect shield early because there are two
insane sweepers that Kanto no can bring and none of Pokemon has been really
Coming up in this matter and particularly in this matchup is that poly toad it is seeing red with that shadow variant as well
And it's just so relentless with the weather balls
But it's gonna be the charge about versus the nine tails charge
It's got to get out of there the embers are gonna come through and burn itself
So we've now got why square in play a much better switching for this nine tails
Oh sure tomorrow gonna lock in some significantly more damage here as it goes for the energy ball energy ball
No shielded by the Gliscor. Do we see the defense drop? Yes we do as in comes Jellicent.
There is the Jellicent in play however and if we take a look at the back line
There is indeed that Pangora. It's just something to bear in mind.
Oh he's going for the bait. Hiromaru is taking it through. Calls the bait! What a call by Hiromaru!
Able to get that through Jellicent. Keeping the shields in play but the Gliscor once again in this position to fire off one of the
Charged Attacks of Sanshoom coming through. Is another shield coming up? Yes! Hiromaru does go to the shield keeping Jellicent safe.
That was not enough for the aquabatics, but hero Maru did not want to risk it back in comes to Chargerbug
But genuinely, Jelsior actually gets very good value in this matchup up a little bit of energy
You're gonna see a Chargerbug, no shields, Shadowball basically comes close to picking up a two hit KO
And we know how devastating Shadowball could be and this one has the same type attack bonus in contrast to what we see from the Licky Licky for example
Chargerbug now in a precarious spot
Contowners forced to have to go for a shield to keep it in the game and apply pressure with the electric type attacks
Oh, an aggressive pivot out.
In comes the nine tails.
Gonna reach for the discharge,
but discharge is not a particularly strong attack.
If Hiromaru lets this go,
this could get a little bit tricky.
Discharge is going to be no shielded.
It connects, and now in comes the Pangoro,
but the Pangoro is down a lot of energy.
Pangoro's not gonna get the farm down.
A weather ball is guaranteed to land,
so Kanto is forced to no shield.
Yeah, nine tails on the upper hand right now.
How's that energy that it conveys to you so quickly?
That's that Pangoro has managed to get the edge now
and finally get a nice action play,
But there is that weather we're waiting on the other side.
Hiromaru, happy to let all that energy go though to bring in one of the Pokemon from the back
while allowing the Pankoru to expunge his energy onto the Ninetales.
And the Ninetales has been very good.
The boost comes through, but it just seems like it's too little too late.
Pangoro makes the boost in close combat, but Hiromaru was prepared.
A protect shield remains.
Tinkertown will be preserved, and Hiromaru just seems unstoppable.
Honestly, the way this Tinkertong with the Faria win can dispatch,
fighting, and Dark Tides in the form of the Pangoro is just absolutely
unforgivable. Being able to get rid of that Pokemon and now apply pressure to this
Charger Book as well, Tinkertong is really in the spotlight now.
How pulled those debuff as well, not necessary, but that's about how the game went.
Hero Maru has done it! Winning in our Winner Semi-Finals, two games to one,
he's moving on to the Winner's Finals of the World Championships.
absolutely incredible play here
in Mara using that tinker time
using that jealous is absolutely
Taylor swift victory into the
winners finals. Absolutely
effort. Incredible gameplay.
Honestly, I'm on the edge of my
seat the whole way through this
if I even had a seat to stand on
right now every single game is
coming right down to the wire
and we're getting such master
class in. Pokemon innovation,
the way that these trainers are
using the more rogue choices that
they're bringing the charger
It's great to be able to see not only how to use them, but why they deserve to be here
at Worlds.
And one very interesting aspect of that series was kind of the role reversal between games
two and three.
We saw in game number two if you end up leading weak to that pangoro and you're forced to
switch out, pangoro has the eight turn pacing, even if you as the Ninetales have eight turn
pacing, switching takes a turn.
You're behind, you can't go for the turn, you're chipped, it makes life kind of awkward,
and it was the role reversal in game number three.
Kanto Ninetales reminding people that it is one of the best polka-bon in this meta for
reason and it was all set up by Hiromaru with the bait called no shielding the
sand dune shielded the second but was genuinely able to get really good value
out of that Jellicent and then the Kanto 9 tails up energy calling that it was
going to be the Pengoro in the back with very minimal fast attack pressure no
shielding the discharge and just getting enough damage onto that Pegoro to allow
the Ticketon to clean up even as Pegoro got that night's flash boost. We did have
a couple of questions about the Jellicent and kind of its viability into
this matchup, but the fact that I had the partner of the Tinkerton and the Ninetales
to be able to deal respectively with the Pankora or with the Charger Bug just meant
that the Jellicent was in a prime position to focus down on the Gliscor, farm up as much
energy as it wants and then just shadowball after shadowball.
Honestly, once again, teamwork and it's absolute finest.
Now the Shadow of the Poundon, unfortunately, was not brought to that series against the
Gliscor.
Gliscor is not the usual flyer on a lot of teams and due to that ground flying typing,
Weatherball Rock only hits for neutral so it's a pretty negative matchup.
the hip-hop on which Hiromaru had really favored in previous matchups stayed on the bench for this one
It wasn't like there was man teens that could get overwhelmed by shadow weather ball rocks
It was a glide score. So I had to kind of adjust the strategy really rely on that cancer nightels in game for three
Can't our nightels proving that it deserves its usage because it really felt like cancer nightels
Just completely ran over that entire team in that game number three
Yeah, it was absolutely great to see and of course if you're just tuning in now
We just have a look at one of the winners semi's matches
but we do also have a little preview of our losers bracket as well so you can
catch up on how the action is going there some incredible names still in the competition
oh my goodness it looks like caspy and pike has emerged victorious in losers round one the
indianapolis regional champion in a heavyweight bout out of pocket took down inadequates so our
losers round one has almost concluded there but even just taking a look at all all the other names
that have made it to the Loser's bracket. This Loser's bracket is stacked, my goodness!
Honestly, looking at names like Sussan and Cedar that we saw kick Padaman down into the Loser's
bracket earlier today is now sitting there ready and waiting in Loser's round four.
Dunebug again, one of the trainers I think has so many medals he needs a new shelf at home to be
able to keep accommodating those. Jai as well that we got to see to great success on the stream
throughout today's broadcast and of course PVP David, someone who has been so inspiring to watch
still very much in contention for the competition. And Contono for those who
are cheering for him at home, he's all the way over in Losers round six. So for
Contono a much deserved break. He is going to be battling much later in the
day. We have a lot of Losers matches to get through here. And once we progress
those Losers rounds, he's going to be in Losers round six. So he's already pretty
close to the Losers finals. I believe it'll only be two best of three wins to
get there. So that's one of the advantages of dropping down to Losers
later on in the day is we're able to skip so many Losers bracket rounds. And
that is a very, very big head start for now though. We will be sticking on the
winners side of the brackets and bringing you our second winners semi-final and
it's between two incredible trainers. We have got Emmy Weedle and Marto Galday.
Again, two trains who almost need no introduction. If you were watching the
broadcast earlier, you will remember a certain Don Dozo and I know Henry for one
is so excited to be able to have this potentially showcased again later on.
Marto Galday in the Stundado has been unstoppable in the competition.
Don Dozo is here. Don Dozo I believe was out of pocket. He was able to pilot it to a very good finish at at the Indianapolis regional championships
And then it was XR Vos in in one of the APAC qualifiers. I believe piloted to a second place finish
So Don Dozo, it's thought some kind of been rising and Marto Galday now piloting it to amazing success at the World Championships
But he's gonna be up against a ferocious competitor in M.E. Weedle. M.E. Weedle
I mean, the accolades speak for themselves.
He is the previous European international champion,
the 2022 Pokemon Go Seniors Division World Champion.
This is a battle between two of our best battlers
in the entire world.
And it's an absolute joy to get to watch this series
because this is going to be incredible.
The truly are Pokemon Go folklore stories
written about these two trainers.
They have so many amazing additions in the history books
of incredible matches, incredible Pokemon,
incredible memories. Emmy Weedle, like you said, has been a world champion previously in the senior's
division back in 2022. Since then, it's all about the masters here, and he wants to be able to
claim himself a second world title and be able to say, hey, I'm the only player in the world who
is capable of doing this in two divisions. Now, that would be a pretty incredible accomplishment,
but as we take a look at his opponent, Marto Galdi, he's no stranger to having his own hardware. A
a former Latin American international champion,
multi-time regional champion as well.
I believe he had ended up placing in third
in a previous world championship.
So he also has probably, I just want a cabinet, right?
Like an entire cabinet full of trophies and medals
to those decorated traders in our entire game.
And this matchup is going to be incredible.
Marto Galdi going a bit more anti-Meta
with the Shadow Savile and the Dondozo
and M.E. Weedle saying meta is meta for a reason.
M.E. Weedle, we've seen him on stage a couple times.
He's running disarming voice on that gorgeous.
The rest of the move sets all pretty standard.
The battle has exchanged well wishes.
We have lock-ins.
Game number one of the winner semifinals coming up.
Let's have a look between M.E. Weedle and Marto Galday,
who is gonna be the victor?
Moving on to the winners finals.
It is gonna be a literally keep M.E. Weedle
and the Ninetales for Marto Galday.
All in all, not a terrible matchup for the Ninetales,
the rollout does say for some perfect damage. Part of the choice to throw on 7 or 10 is
going to opt to throw on 7 here. Doesn't quite set up the same sequencing as throwing
on 10, but what it can do is guarantee that damage lands onto the licky licky that potentially
set up a catch out.
You have to look at the back lines as well. We've got that D'Andozo waiting in the wings.
That's a Pokemon that's just going to be able to absorb a lot of hits. So 9 tells I think
putting in some work to deal with some of the bulky opponents on Emi Wiedel's side as well
that might give D'Andozo a run for its money.
And Emmy Weedle chose to throw that charge attack immediately on alignment.
If three Ember did sneak through, but Weedle here is valuing the fact that the Shadow Ball
will either guarantee land damage or get a protect shield to ensure that it does not
get caught.
Dondozo finally joins the match here and we are going to be able to see it take this
Shadow Ball coming through from Licky Licky, a fantastic Pokemon to eat up all of that
damage allowing the Ninetales to safely bank that energy in the back.
This is a genuinely very important bit of damage to land on the Dondozo because Impoleon
typically is not able to pick up a Q-Hit knockout with Drillpack.
You can see the Metal Sounds basically doing no damage onto Dondozo, and while Dondozo
is walled, an ability to survive two Drillpecks is imperative.
However, with that Shadow Ball landing, as you see this Drillpeck land, this Dondozo
is getting very close to Drillpeck being able to pick up the two hit knockout, and that's
very favorable for Weedle, as Impoleon does offer a pretty significant pacing advantage
in this matchup.
Yeah, Drillpecks are kind of going Metal Sounds, I can't hear you, you're actually
absolutely null and void in this match, but it's all about these charge attacks, look
at that.
Perfect over farmed by wheel. He is not letting that surf land drill peck knocks out the dondo zoe
And he is up a protect shield and still has a pretty healthy and holy on yet
Ninetales comes back in as well has all of our energy banks who can immediately unleash one of these weather balls
Boasting the shields come through on any wheel side wanting to keep the impoli on nice and safe in the game again
Metal sounds not doing too much, but it's critically about the energy generation
It is getting to its water type attack critical shield coming through our motto gal day side
Marto Galdi all protect shields down for the remainder of the game. There's gonna be a pivot out in comes the quads higher
He could have stayed in there, but doesn't but any weedle. Oh, no, his quads are is on mudbomb
It is completely walled
That's the thing you want to see the stone edge in play when you have a flyer on the opposing side
But instead the ground type attack is really gonna be negligible damage into the Altaria as is the aquatail for insult to injury
Whereas Altaria can just keep going for these diagonal best farm up all of the energy and really put Marto Galdi in a promising position
position. Aquatail after Aquatail, it's not going to matter. The Altaria is just inevitable.
Marto Galday forms up just shy of 100 energy and now begins to put the pressure on Quax
Eye with these sky attacks. This is a great position here for the Altaria, just going
down from the sky, sky attack up, sky attack, putting on a possible farm down onto the Quax
Eye there, but instead it's going to have to face down against the opponent, but it
has energy for days, forcing that shield to come through on any middle side. And Marto
Marto Galde still has energy available on the Canteran eintails, the Altaria outside of
drill pack range, but it's not going to get that chance. In comes the eintails sniping
down with the weather ball and Polion is going to fall. Emmy Weedle does still have the Quagsire,
but the Quagsire has no hit points. The Licky Licky has no hit points either, while you
can have all the energy in the world and you cannot defeat Altaria. Marto Galde farms down,
fires off the weather ball at Licky Licky, and Marto Galde is going to be taking game
number one. Absolutely incredible. Brilliant to see this nine tells close out
the game but honestly the torture post department is calling that quag there and
asking it to sell its story against that Altaria. It really just was
desolation nowhere for it to go and Altaria was in such a dominant position.
That quag sired knowing that it's mudbomb that's such a risk to bring into
an Altaria and unfortunately it did not end up working out for Weedle.
Marto's decision reading the fact that Weedle liked to throw those shadow
balls on a lambs to try and avoid a catch. Getting the catch on the Dondozo,
baiting out the Embolion in the reveal.
I don't know if Weedle had ended up
bringing that Quagsire too much on stream.
So, Quagsire normally into Altaria with Stone Edge,
which moves the 3D quite a bit.
It's fine, Stone Edge does a lot of damage,
but it was the Mud Bomb.
Mud Bomb makes this matchup so much better
into Pokemon like Ticketon,
but unfortunately it falls flat against Altaria.
I mean, let's step back and speak now
about why that Quagsire is possibly running
the alternative to the Stone Edge.
If you're against Flyers on the opposing side,
what are Emmys Weedle's way of countering it?
So, Emmy Weedle does have that, Licky, Licky, and Licky, Licky can do quite well in their fliers.
Most fliers that, because Altaria isn't typically the flier of choice, more often than not, Manti.
And this team is pretty well structured to try and deal with Manti.
But Altaria does put a bit of unique pressure onto the team, and Tentacanto Nightdales has some pretty decent play into Manti.
It's not a good matchup, but if you're off energy, you do have an ability to threaten with neutral energy balls.
But against Altaria, it's kind of the Turdnater theory.
You're going to need a lot of weather balls, and Altaria is still going to have a lot of HP after you fire off all those weather balls.
Particularly with those Dragon Breath, they stack up so much energy and get so many little increments of damage down.
Even though by themselves, it's not a big amount of damage, the fact that there's such a fast, fast attack just means that you can start steamrolling through opponents.
And it's a great position to see Altaria in.
Coming into this next game, however, Mato Galde won game away from advancing into our winners finals.
is going to be doing everything he can to stop him because he wants to put his name
onto that next place in our bracket.
Marto Galday was made for moments like these.
You don't win that many regional championships and an international championship without having
that killer instinct, that ability when you're so close to your goal to be able to get that
final win, to be able to secure your place in the winners' finals.
Both battlers, they're taking their time.
They're ensuring.
preparing. They know this is the biggest game they have played today.
Mardo knows he's won win away from the winners finals and that might be all he
needs to secure his place in top three. So looking forward into this next game
how is Emi Uido going to deal with this Altaria better? Which Pokemon needs to get
the alignment? The Flaugus for example has the utility off that ferry when that's
a great way to deal with opposing dragons but is it just too difficult in
the face of a potential tinkertone on the opposing side that can hit back with
This for just is running the disarming voice and with disarming voice it does have a pretty good ability to deal with the Altaria
But by not having trail place suddenly you actually end up being surprisingly weak to Dondo so Dondo
So is a very big fan of taking neutral charge attacks. We've seen it time and time again Dondo so very okay
You really need super effective damage into Dondo so otherwise
It's gonna be able to take at least three charge stacks
So I can see where the pressure of Dondo so might make him shy away from the for this
But in doing so he's really gonna have to rely on that Impoleon
But the Impoleon ended up getting faded out there, and then it was kind of tough
It certainly is I think if there was something like the trailblaze on the Flaujers
You might be in a better position to start doing some good damage into that Dondozo as well as critically getting the attack cruise to that
Flaujers that can start steamrolling instead
We're going to the best grass type Pokemon in the format
Which is the nine tails right now relying on that energy ball to deal with the bulky water type in the form of that Dondozo
But at the same time Dondozo can retaliate so beautifully with those waterfalls
They really start stacking up some good damage and if you can get some surfs ready to go then 9 tails can't be washed away
And that don dozo. Oh my goodness
It's ability to survive the energy ball and even in that matchup a lot of the times one of the things that I find
When you go back and take a look at a trainer who is won a game
It's basically about trying to maximize value out of the Pokemon that you bring and that's on dozo for marshal balde
He got a lot of value that was a 50 energy gone from a lickie lickie
There was back to back drill pegs having to be thrown by a Polly on that so much energy
Expended by M.E. Lidl. Now obviously Altaria onto the quagsire
There's really nothing quagsire can do without that stone edge
But even so I feel like I very rarely see a game in which Dondozo felt value as that incredible amount of bulk and its ability
To kind of be used as a tool for repositioning almost getting that catch
Preserving his lead magic. You kind of put him in a very good spot
I think it has been a beautiful showcase by Dondozo throughout this tournament and Marte Gull
They obviously piloting it to phenomenal success a great call by yourself as well Henry putting that on your cast of predictions
It must be a joy to see but as we're waiting for our trainers to get ready the match will be with you as soon as possible folks
We're just building anticipation a little bit more
I think there's one Pokemon that we have neglected to talk about and I'm curious to hear from you home size
But whether you think it has any utility in this match is really our ghost types here
You've got the shadow save a lot of gold aside and you've got the glaring force not an enemy
We decide both trainers opted to not bring it in this game one. Is there any utility for the ghost types here?
I do think that Shadow Sableye could be quite interesting.
The Shadow Sableye, it's likely to depend on the specific stat spread that Marto has
decided to run.
Do you opt for a more bulk oriented Shadow Sableye, or do you opt for more of an attack
way to Shadow Sableye?
Because if you run quite a bit of attack on Shadow Sableye, you can actually win charge
priority over the Polion, and because you have identical pacing if you're winning charge
priority, then you're just winning that matchup straight up.
So whether Marto decides to bring it could depend a lot on the stat spread that he has,
Because if you do have that extra investment in the attack, then that could be a bit of
a nasty surprise for any Weedle who expects it to be a good matchup, just to find out
that it is not.
I like the coverage on Saber-Lie as well.
Obviously, the Shadowclaw is one of the best fast attacks in the game, and can have really
nice positioning against Pokemon like the Corsula.
At the same time, you have that drain punch, the fighting type charge attack, that can
be great in something like the Licky-Licky, but trainers, you'd have to wait any longer.
We're jumping into game two, and the second winner, Sammy, is that Tondozo back in action
against the Licky-Licky.
We've got the battle of the bulk in game number two,
Don Dozzo versus the Licky Licky.
Licky Licky will have the pacing advantage,
but waterfall does significantly more damage than a rollout.
It's gonna be Licky Licky striking first
as it looks to land the shadow ball.
Of course, we know Don Dozzo can basically shrug this attack off at this point,
just able to take that and keep the shields in play while being up to a tally with a serve.
Licky Licky, of course, has notorious bulk as well,
so is gonna be able to take this and eat up the energy on the opposing side.
But both these trainers is really going to come to where the switch happens to when the momentum pace is going to change.
Could any Weedle eventually look for a catch? No.
He's going to stay on the field, wait the turn, and fire off that shadow ball in the middle of the waterfall animation to ensure that it will land on its intended target.
This is why you have to ask a question. It's putting the Dondozo down into the right zone.
You do not have the position to go for another serve.
And critically, I think Dondozo, yes, Mato Galdane might be putting it in a very vulnerable position,
but you've also returned the favor to that Licky Licky and secure the KO.
Oh, he brings in the Empoli on the save switch, Altaria, but there's the Flaugus!
The adjustment!
Emmy Weedle baited him into switching!
He did not want to concede the farm down.
He sent in the Altaria, but Emmy Weedle came prepared.
The Flaugus is here, and with this arming voice, it's going to be able to inflict some pretty massive damage onto that Altaria.
This is what I'm talking about. The Flaugus finds a smart against the Altaria.
This is the exact counter that was needed to best the Altaria.
There was such a thorn in Emmy Weedle's side in that previous game, particularly considering the fact that Haspish and Salmon voice
with same type attack bonus, the Altaria going on shield that is going to have to take this attack.
It's not enough to get the knockout though, Altaria stays in the sky.
That is a little bit unfortunate for Emmy Weedle, older farm to the max, playing the charge type
already, but the Altaria two bolts, even a super effective disarming voice, could not knock it
out of the sky. Forges will get that farm down, but honestly not the worst outcome for Marto Galded.
Yeah, you have a lot of energy up onto the floges, but now the tables really have turned,
you have the tinketon that isn't going to worry about the charge attacks that the
Fulges is sending his way and at the same time you can start getting that gigaton ready to fly.
Readying comes the Empolion. Empolion has a lot of energy. The Ticketon is debuffed and it looks like it could be a position from which Marco Galvez cannot fly his way back.
He really wants to reset the attack drop. But in doing so, there's a Tontozo that has basically no energy and all it would do is just give a bunch of farm over to the Empolion.
That's the thing, you can go for this bulldoze all you want.
Ami-Wido just saying, bring it on your debuff at this point in time.
Why Ampolion isn't going to worry taking that.
You do get the drop, however, and the Tinkertron is ready to follow up,
but there is still that shield. Ami-Wido saying,
we're going to protect it, though. We're going to let Ampolion stand its ground.
Even despite the debuff, oh, we're going to see the pitted out in comes the Dandozo.
These waterfalls are actually adding up onto the Ampolion.
Hold on a second. Oh, it's the fire off energy.
Marcho Galle not at 1 HP.
If he puts up a shield, the waterfall would take the knockout.
The biggest call he makes today, he lets it go.
Don Dozo will fall and it's gonna be all up to Tinketon.
That was so close, Don Dozo nearly being able
to get the farm down.
Instead, that shield prepared for this Tinketon,
keeping it in play, forcing the Empoli
on to utilize all the energy on the Hydra kind of,
but there's the switch, Florgis in play.
And Florgis has so much energy.
Florgis is gonna need the back to back chilling waters here.
Marto Galday desperately needs to get there.
This is gonna be close.
He needs to get to the Tinketon hammer,
but Florgis still has the protect shield.
And that's just not going to be enough.
M.E. Weedle gets his equalizer.
Florges knocks out one of its worst matchups in Tinketon.
And we're going to a game number three.
That victory has got to taste so sweet for the Florges,
being able to be in the best position against the Altaria.
And like you said, holding its own against the Tinketon as well.
I think Mato Galle,
bringing that Tinketon was great coming into this matchup.
You're able to find a way to deal with that Florges
if the Altaria does find itself falling victim to it.
But Emi Uedo just seemed constantly one step ahead.
That game honestly felt like a roller coaster.
You could see Marto's idea, get the debuffs,
send in the Dondozo, find a way.
But Emi Uedo, intentionally over-farming enough
to the back-to-back, allowed him to be able to pressure away
that final protect shield from the Tinkathon.
Incredibly good energy management there from Emi Uedo.
And he's proving why he's made it
all the way to the winners semi-finals.
At the beginning of this game,
you saw this kind of stalemate going on
between the Licky Licky and the Dondozo.
I had to ask the question, did MotoGal, they keep the Domdozo in a little bit too long against the Licky Licky, meaning it had kind of utilized its last reserves?
The Domdozo wasn't really able to utilize too much in the later stages. Imagine, a couple more waterfalls, could that have made a difference?
Or maybe even considering the fact that instead of knocking out that Licky Licky, holding onto that Domdozo energy and then pivoting out, because it really felt like once the Domdozo knocked out the Licky Licky,
I think you have it sometimes in BGC where sometimes knocking out a Pokemon is actually a liability.
It almost felt like knocking out the licky-licky was a liability for Mato because then the Dondozo was basically more or less a sitting duck.
It had no energy. He tried to make lightning strike by debuffing it and then bringing in the Dondozo.
But even that was not enough because M.E. Weedle with the foresight to double up on the Hydra Ganons basically made it impossible for Mato.
Well, coming into this game three and once again, we have a game three.
I love to see things come right down to the wire like this.
They're battling out for a place in our winners final looking at what these Pokemon trainers can bring
Are we going to see some bold adjustments or is it going to be really about utilizing energy management and switch stronger?
I really hope that we get to see that Dondozo one final time
I think that the Dondozo just with slightly different management there just a slightly different play style because it was very very good in that first
Game, but maybe not as a lead
Maybe it does need to be in the back like it was in that game number one
Utilizes more of a damage squad to not necessarily playing out those even matchup
But one trainer has locked in the other, making last second adjustments here.
This is going to be an incredible, incredible battle, and the players feel it.
The spectators feel it. You at home feel it. The anticipation. They exchange well wishes.
We've got double lock-ins. Game number three, winner of semi-finals.
It's going to be the Shadow Quaxire into the Shadow Canto Night Tales.
The purple flames are on the stage as both these trainers going for these boss attacks,
farming of as much energy as possible.
Any two bull in a prime position to do some damage into that crime sorry, but nine just gets out there
Crab that gets out there is the battle of the water types Mardo call
They try for the catch Emmy Weedle does not let it happen
But this is not the don doze one poly on magic that we have seen before this is a full health don doze
Oh as the first drill peck connects you will notice this does well under 50% of its total health bar
Emmy Weedle is going to need three drill pecks if you want to secure a knockout
But don doze is getting dangerous to close to the back-to-back serves
Yeah, Dondozo pretty comfortable to keep taking a couple of these drill pecs
and as you've said the waterfall stacking up getting these serfs in the position to start overwhelming the penguin on the opposing side of the field.
You can see another one coming through forcing Emmy Weedle to utilize a precious shield head in his hands a little bit thinking that these are the critical moments of the game.
And this exact scenario is what a lot of the ball beyond players end up feeling is suddenly the Dondozo matchup, which on paper should be pretty good.
It suddenly feels kind of awkward. You look at this next drill pecs.
It's not going to enable a farm down and the weedle is gonna need to either pivot out or fire off even more energy
And at the same time these waterfalls getting you to and nullice up the hydro cannons primed as well
So the impolion does manage to get the edge. Marto gal be going on shielded here
Marto gal they sing don dozo has done its job
It has effectively neutralized the impoleon the pollion does have the hydro cannon banked in comes the nine tails
Marta will look to try and go for a farm down
But can M. E. Weedle risk sending in the Quagsire out of fear of the Altaria?
He does. He says it's no Altaria. That is an incredibly bold call.
So dominant coming through on M. E. Weedle, switching into that Quagsire.
They already have the energy bank. The shield comes up on Ninetel's side.
Ninetel's the one that really wants to be ferocious at the moment.
Not going for the energy ball though, is M. E. Weedle gonna call it?
M. E. Weedle, he puts up the protect shield.
It is gonna be the weather ball bait, and now it's gonna be a race.
Energy ball versus the Aqua Tail.
Marto switches one early. In comes that Licky Licky.
But this is where a charge attack like mudbomb will allow emmy weedle to get some pretty nice damage
He's gonna go for the off the tail first
But if he does he's able to land the mudbomb mudbomb will do considerably more damage
Aquatail just chipping away the licky licky as licky licky starts bombing off as much energy as possible
It can just start going through with the shadow balls
But the quags are is also ready to meet it being able to unleash another Aquatail
Critically it wants to try and get that pressure with the mudbomb when it can always gonna pivot out switch diapers
He gets the catch onto the Embolion.
That is not what Marto needed to have happened,
but he's unable to roll out down,
so he would have had to throw energy anyway.
That's at least one way to clear a Pokemon from the board,
but look at the health positioning of the Flaugers
and this cracks out on Emi-Wheedle's side of things.
It's gonna take a lot of effort coming through.
At least you've got rid of the shields on one side.
Now you've got the Shadow Ball coming through
into the Shadow Cracksire.
The Shadow Ball, it's not going to do much.
Emi-Wheedle, he ends up waiting a turn there,
trying to go for a charge tech priority tie,
Martel Galday was one off either way.
Awkwateel is going to be securing the knockout.
Back in comes the Ninetales.
Ninetales needs a move.
It does not have it.
And M.E. Weedle, he cannot believe it.
Honestly, the back to back Awkwatels,
we've seen this time and time again.
The energy management, heavy damage going down
into the opposing Pokemon here.
Ninetales is gonna be able to retaliate,
but there is, I believe, a full health forges
in the back for M.E. Weedle.
M.E. Weedle, he cannot believe it.
Head in his hands, just a few fairy winds from Gorgias.
He gets the far down and Emmie Weedle moves on to the winners finals of the World Championship.
Absolute cinema, incredible games.
Emmie Weedle can't believe it, but what an incredible game 3 taking us right down to that moment.
Quaxire, reigning supreme in the meta right now.
Congratulations, Emmie Weedle. What a match home slice.
Incredible gameplay there, Emmie Weedle.
He stayed with the Quaxire, it ended up on Altaria,
but he trusted in it when it mattered the most
and that incredibly bold call of game three,
risking the fact that it could be the Altaria in the back,
but he trusted his gut.
He said there's no Altaria,
and if there's no Altaria,
pivoting back into Quaxire would put a ton of pressure
on the Marto.
Marto wanted the fear of the Altaria
to keep Quaxire away from me, Switchlock,
so he could get a bunch of energy on the Niles,
But Emmy Weedle, that might be the play of the tournament right there.
That call, that gut read.
I mean, that's what separates champions from the rest of us.
Emmy Weedle onto top three.
What a series.
Marto played incredibly well.
But Emmy Weedle just one step ahead.
Emmy Weedle almost didn't need his third and final Pokemon in this game three.
It was all about the Empolion and Quattro.
What a duo, worthy diligently against the three on Marto Galday's side of things.
I think don't those though it's not quite as invincible as we thought it was.
Looks like it's got some competition for that water type throw for any Weedle in this moment
being able to get the second Aquatails. Big damage onto the opposing Ninetales to
swung the momentum so strongly in his favor. And how many times have we seen Kanto Ninetales
knock out water type today? It was the revenge of the water type. That's
actually taken the knockout and it honestly just oh my goodness. You can feel the emotion
from M. E. Weedle. He could not believe it. He was so worried until the very end, but he did it.
He's on to top three. Our winners' finals have been set. On the top we have, oh my goodness,
Hiromaru from Japan. Now M. E. Weedle from Switzerland and our winner's side of the bracket
for now is complete. We still have those two in the winners' finals, but we still have so
many games to go on the loose side of the bracket because with the winners' finals is set,
We need to progress a lot of losers rounds to get to the losers finals.
So many trainers who we've seen fall out of the winners side of the bracket.
They're still alive.
They haven't played yet on the losers side of the bracket.
So now our attention turns to that losers side of the bracket.
We've seen some incredible world champions born out of losers out of the bracket.
Dancing Rob as well.
That is very true.
But it sounds like we have to get to hear from the man of the hour, M.E.
Weedle.
We have Tomahawk down on the floor with M.E.
Weedle fresh off his winners semi-finals win.
I'm joined by Emmy Weedle. I don't need to say anything. What's going through your mind right now?
I didn't know that. Just pure excitement, happiness, every positive emotion you can really think of.
And I love, we love watching the emotions going through your face, your body, everything when you win those matches.
Can you remotely describe how it feels when you know that you have that victory?
Not really. You know, you need to play to the end. You need to make sure you haven't accidentally made a, you know,
you know, a crucial mistake in your, you know, playing out the rest of the game in your head, but it just feels, it just feels great.
And yeah, when, when the win finally comes through, it's, I mean, it's, it's just amazing.
And what an incredible Pokemon Go journey you've had from senior world champion.
You played season in, season out, and you are now in the winners finals of the 2026 World Championships.
What does that mean to you?
I mean, it means so much to me because I've had, you know, I've had a few rough tournaments.
not as consistent as players like Adam Man, Beelzeboy,
but the fact that I can make a run like this,
and it proves to myself more than to other people
that I can still play this game pretty well.
Very, very well.
Now, talk us through some of the moments in that match,
because I know you're very meticulous with your play,
and there are a few moments there
where you did need to make some critical decisions.
Are there any reflections you have in the moment?
Yeah, I mean, the game one was obviously not ideal
with Mudbomber, Quagsire on an Atari at the end,
But then in game three I just needed to make the prediction that it wasn't in Altaria.
I think if I gave him too much energy on the 9 tails, he was going to sweep me with that anyways.
So I just had to make the call and you know, it worked out of course, but yeah,
not necessarily going to be as easy in the next games or if I have to face Marto again.
Now when you started today knowing that you were in today too, what were your expectations?
And if you were to speak now to yourself earlier this morning, how would you be feeling?
I mean, amazing, obviously, but I didn't expect to beat Boom.
He's an amazing player.
I did technically have a slightly positive matchup in my eyes,
and I think he'd agree to.
But yeah, I was lucky to make it past there,
and just to make it this far now, it's, yeah, once again,
it's just amazing.
Right, next up, you're against Hiromaru in those winners' finals.
Have you been watching him play?
How are you thinking about feeling for that match?
I think it's pretty bad for me,
bad for me because they're hippopotamus and the electrode are pretty safe into me in general.
So I might have to get some line calls right, I might have to play better than I already
have, but yeah, I'll see how that goes.
It's a tough ask, but before you go away and prepare for that, are there any shoutouts
you'd like to give?
My mum is here, of course.
My dad at home as well.
the first time I've seen a
team that has been amazing.
Everybody who's helped me
scream in the build up to this
tournament, who helped me
practice, discussed the day one,
the day two fast match up against
Boom. Everybody who supported me
along the way. Thank you. Thank
you so much. Really well done,
Max. I cannot wait to see if you
can go all the way this weekend.
It's always great to be able to hear some words of wisdom from our competitors.
Congratulations, Emmy Weigel again on a fantastic victory.
I'm looking forward to seeing you in winners' finals.
What an incredible moment.
I know his family watching has to be ecstatic as well.
Getting to play at your absolute best on the biggest stage.
And now he will get some time to hopefully get a little bit of food,
get a little bit of rest, a little bit of practice in ahead of this incredible winners' finals matchup.
matchup for winners finals bracket has been set we started with 16 players on
winter side we're down to two now that means all those players who dropped
her down in the losers side of the bracket we also had 16 trainers coming
in from the losers side of the bracket so now we start progressing these losers
rounds we get closer and closer now the stakes are even higher not only are like
on the winter side you just drop the losers if you lose you're out exactly it
is a double elimination bracket after all I think one of the most amazing things
over the storylines that can really be written from the loser side of the bracket. If you take a look at our next match Mi Chang versus Spartan, now Spartan you'll remember from day one of the broadcast actually lost to Firestar very early on in the tournament but later was able to get the redemption at the end of day one facing down against Firestar once again and actually knocking him out of the tournament whereas Mi Chang I also believe went down very early doors.
Mi Chang ended up dropping very early in the tournament, but just because you're down, doesn't mean you're out and is preceded to get win after win after win after win.
Mi Chang's team features Shadow Fortress, Malamar, Dunspar, a Pokemon we haven't seen too often so far this weekend, Tokikis, but honestly it feels like the star of the show so far, Tondozo and Delarian Corsola.
I was wondering how long it was going to take you to mention the Dunspar. You haven't seen enough of this Pokemon yet.
So let's take a look at the matchup it's going to potentially have.
We're wondering if it's going to come out in the leaves.
The trainers are ready.
We've got the Flauchers versus Fawratris.
And this is the bug bite Fawratris.
Even though bug bites are all resistant,
Fawratris heavily favored in this matchup.
Fawratris does have a pacing advantage
and can debuff with Chilling Water.
But Fawratris has the ability to get those debuffs right back.
And those bug bites really don't look very resistant
as they add up very quickly onto that Fawratris.
Yeah, they're still typing on the Fawratris
as well helping out against the Fairywinds.
You do take the attack job,
But I think the critical thing fortress is about is the debuff itself so it can now go to this rock to and start whittling away at the
Attack of that floor just to another reason to run the shadow bug by fortress is even as for the supplies with debuffs
You don't ever really reduce the amount of bug bite damage
Napoleon's answer from Spartan answered with the don dozo
Traditionally this would be seen as the man to bed in polio was switching to but me Cheng knows the dozo is surprisingly effective answer to the
of Polyon.
Taking notes from our last match, we've got Dandozo and Impolio once again facing down
against each other. Dandozo, really not worried about the metal sounds coming this way. It's
utilizing the opportunity to get the Serps ready to go.
A Serp comes out from Dandozo. Spartan is going to be letting that through. Serp does
do a pretty respectable amount of damage. Spartan is going to throw four metal sounds
here. He does get the double off on Drillpacks. Dandozo now has that Serp, but we'll lose
the Torch Security Tie to the Impolion.
Exactly, Dondozo, allowing this Drill Peck to come through does do a little bit of damage but you still have that surf that you can unleash and force a potential shield to come through on the Emporion Spartan's backline.
It does have a lot of notorious bolts so it doesn't necessarily need to utilize the shield whereas Emporion wants to stay in play and make sure it can utilize the energy it has deliberately farmed up.
Emporion going to overfarm Spartan, building up to the back to back, going for the Drill Peck, going for a bit of an undercharge here. He actually doesn't want to knock out the Dondozo, he wants a little bit of extra farm.
The under charge is gonna pay off the beach and hit it's out fortress hits the field and Spartan will immediately fire off that drill
Back to look to pressure away and protect shield. Yeah for a choice really not gonna worry too much about this
But does both the shield to make sure he can stop bug biting and applying that debuff pressure
Lord just however comes out to meet it and says I can debuff to with this chilling water
No shield from me Chang is chilling water would fail to take the knockout fortress able to survive
Fortress should even be able to take the knockout here with a sand tube
But not gonna throw in, it's just gonna let this go, and now it's gonna potentially try and just look for farm for Togekiss.
A complete undercharge though, coming through, Flauchers hoping that it can maybe get a little bit of chip there, but no.
Instead, Flauchers goes straight down and now it's the battle of the fairy type as Togekiss takes to the stage.
Togekiss, a fairy type, is gonna be aligned into Mandebus, the dark type of the end game.
But without Dazzling Gleam, Mandebus can actually put up a pretty significant fight here.
The energy advantage that Toadkiss has will be to its advantage, but as this horse here connects you're going to notice
This really does not do a lot of damage onto the very bulky Vandibus
This is one of the things I love about the Toadkiss though is the coverage it has with all of its moves
It cannot be solved by one Pokemon's typing alone on the opposing side
Vandibus able to strike off as well thanks to his defensive capabilities and it can now retaliate with this shadow haul into the shield
Now one potential area for concern is the fact that the Impoleon still has some HP remaining
The Dandozo is basically in Metal Sound Down range.
I don't believe the Dandozo.
It's going to be very tough if it's able to make a move or not there.
Dandozo is going to continue to farm,
wanting to try and watch for a catch, no catch come through.
That's going to be the Orsphere.
The Spartan has to pull up a tech shield here,
or Mandobus is going to be lost.
Yeah, Dandozo and Napoleon on the back on their last legs,
to be honest, when they come back in,
it's going to be for a short time only.
Shadowball, however, is once again ready on this Mandobus.
There's so much HP remaining on this Togokis,
though it is going to take a wall of attacks to break through it.
takes it down into that yellow zone, but Togokis facing as quickly as he can to a charge attack,
instead, Dodozo jumping in.
Oh my goodness, Mi-Cheng, what a catch!
He waits the turn, catches the foul play, and that could be the opening he needs.
This is perfect, Togokis banking up that energy, bringing in the Dodozo,
letting it drop, and then it comes back.
One more fast attack, and now it's ready with this Orsphere.
Orsphere will connect, Manderbuzz will fall.
All that's left is the Epoleon.
Had Epoleon make it to a charge attack, it's going to be close.
No, it cannot! Empolion falls!
Mi Chang celebrates as he takes game number one!
That was a beautiful dance between the Toca Kits and the Dondozo.
Toca Kits hasn't quite got to the charge attack.
It needed a little bit more room to maneuver.
And Mi Chang perfectly identified the Spartans at the charge attack.
But that was going to come through instead.
Swapping in the Dondozo saying,
eat this up, you can drop,
and then once all that energy has been explained to the opposing side,
Toca Kits could do what it wanted and get to the aura sphere.
Now, at first glance, viewers might be a little bit confused
why it was so important to catch a resisted foul play.
The reason being, even though foul play would not have knocked out the Togikis, the Impoleon was still very much alive at the back.
So Impoleon, even if it landed one or two metal sounds after that foul play connected, it could have farmed down that Togikis and got to win.
And that is why that check mattered.
Yeah, let's take a look at this replay. The foul play coming through going straight into the bottom, this was the critical moment that enabled this Togikis to have the extra HP in play to be able to get this aura sphere off and critically, as you said, be there ready for the Impoleon when it came back onto set.
What's crazy is even with the Togi's being up to energy,
MandaBuzz was actually going to win that endgame barring that 10.
MandaBuzz shows the power at the bulk of MandaBuzz,
and the reason why Spartan brought it on his team,
MandaBuzz can win matchups, it has no business winning.
Looks like our trainers are ready and raring to go though in this match.
We're going to get into game two.
It's going to be the Calarian Corsair versus Fledgers now.
This is not where you want to be as the Fledgers,
even though Fledgers does have a big pacing advantage.
The astonishment is to be so much damaged,
If you ever go for the chill of water, it debuffs, but it does basically no damage.
Disarming voice, which Spartan goes for, does do a bit more damage, but with no debuff,
that means that Florgis is very vulnerable and taking considerable damage from the Corsalum.
There's a lot of energy up on this Corsalum though, but the Licky Licky comes in,
Bartos comes out to meet it.
Incredible patience, they're not letting that catch happen.
Spartan is gonna go for the body stamp bait.
Mi Chang will fall more and puts up the protect shield,
so a bit of good momentum there for Spartan, but Mi Chang being able to hold onto that
that course Latterty that doesn't very valuable in the back.
Let's not forget Mishanga is on an absolute tear through this Loser's bracket in this calmness
and composure is what is enabled him to get here. We're going to see the rock team come through
on the fortress just weakening up the attack of that opposing Licky Licky. Let's it go through
the defensive capabilities keeping Licky Licky strong and enabling it to go through the shadow ball.
If fortress is able to get a full bunk bite farm down here that would be exactly what Michan is
hoping for. Even if a body slam is reached, a body slam not really a problem. It's debuff,
It wouldn't do a lot of damage. Oh, not even a body slam. Those bug bites are relentless.
Yeah, we're not even going to see Licky Licky get to retaliate here, Forrest.
Whereas the show is yours, and you're up against the fairy type on the opposing side
of this gorgeous. But gorgeous can go through this tuning order, drop the attack a little bit on the
Forrest, meaning these bug bites are not going to be doing it too much. But critically, it gets the
Rock Tomb is less about the damage, and more about lowering the damage capability of your opponent here.
The Forrest 1 HP remaining makes it to the Rock Tomb. Rock Tomb puts Forrest deep into the low HP,
And it's a simultaneous switch.
Togikis into Impolion.
This charge type early tie is very stat dependent.
Impolion knocking him from right away,
not revealing any information.
But this charge type early tie could decide the game.
Does Li Cheng or Spartan decide to risk it here
on this second charge type?
But in contrast to the Dongozo,
these metal cells are putting in some work
against the Togikis.
It's in a very vulnerable spot.
We're now gonna see the Hydra Cannon come through.
Togikis does have bulk to be able to hang on,
but can it get the retaliation it needs?
Oh, actually, it's gone.
Togekiss did get knocked out, and that was Mi-Cheng not wanting to risk that Togekiss and Polion charge that priority time.
It is stat dependent. If he shielded and lost charge that priority, it basically would have instantly lost him the game.
So instead, he's trying to play for a potentially safer route. He does have back-to-back nightshades.
But importantly, Polion is out of nightshade range. It cannot be astonished down.
Yeah, Togekiss dropping has enabled the energy to come through from these nightshades.
It was at two of them. First one went through into the shield. Second one coming through. No shields remaining on Sparkle's side.
So the Polion will be vulnerable to take this attack.
Now Spartan has to be very, very careful.
The Hydro Cannon cannot be caught.
Wait, let's turn.
But Lightning does not strike twice.
Meachan fails to catch.
And Spartan will get his equalizer as this course is off.
Oh, it may barely hold on here.
If it does, it's basically going to have only one hit point remaining.
Let's see how much it does.
Takes it down into the red.
But there's no energy remaining on this course.
The metal sounds are just going to be able to farm away.
And Spartan evenings the score.
Both trainers one game away from staying in the competition.
and this is a null incredible best of three set.
Love seeing everything come down to these
time and moment, the fortress,
trying to get that catch from the set,
the metal sound, taking it down.
And Mi Chang, he was put in a very difficult position
because Spartan intentionally over-formed
and did not reveal who won charge priority
in that Impoleon Togikis matchup
that is within the realm of potentially
stat dependent HR type, they already died
and if you shield and play to that
and lose it as the Togikis, the game is instantly over.
So Mi Chang played to the safer outcome
which was just trying to have Corsola do things and then go for the catch.
He was able to get the game when he catched in game one, but a game number two,
Spartan was ready. He said,
you may have gotten a catch on me once. It is not happening again.
I love that, though, looking at what your opponent did to capitalize on their position
and not allowing them to make the same adjustment twice.
Speaking of adjustments, however, the Glaring Corsola we got to see come in
for Mee Chang in that second game.
But my question, Henry, are we going to see the Dondozo back again?
I would love to see the Dondozo.
Every time I see Dondozo, there's a smile on my face.
Stondozo, one of my favorite Pokemon.
Oh, it looks like we have Lockins.
Game number three.
It's win or go home.
Mi Chang versus Spartan.
And it's Licky Licky into Corsula.
A disaster for Mi Chang.
Absolutely everything on the line here.
The Corsula is staying in for I think one.
Astonished there then gets out of there.
Finds his mark down and gets the Licky Licky.
But of course, the energy advantage is on the Licky Licky side.
Spartan not going to go for the bait this time.
Full sense of the shadow ball.
Spartan should look to pit it out here.
Oh, but he doesn't.
He actually stays on the field.
Getting damage on this Licky-Licky,
exceedingly important for Mi-Cheng.
What Mi-Cheng doesn't know is there's another
answer to the Corsola in the back.
If Spartan is able to get alignment here,
the Vandibles would also shut down that Corsola.
That's great to be able to have that backline position
with the Mandy Fuzz in play.
We're gonna see the Empoli on join the field, however,
just again going for null and void metal sound,
but critically getting to these hard to counters
to put on some pressure.
Spartan able to save the charge deck on that Licky-Licky.
going to fire off Hydro Cannon. No shield from Mi Chang. Mi Chang, barely able to hold
on here. Will click the sand tomb, but now he's in very real danger getting Metal Sound
at down. Switch timer is off. Mi Chang will have the ability to pivot out. Spartan puts
up a protect shield. Corsola will hit the field once again.
Yeah, wanting to keep the Impolo on healthy, possibly forward that potential Metal Sound
farm down, but instead you've got to deal with the astonishers coming through on the
Corsola. Corsola very bulky, very happy to take a Hydro Cannon, but these Metal Sounds
will get us for a second one of these very soon.
Hydro Cannon is going to connect Corsola, not too worried about the first, but these
Astonishes onto the debuff defense do add up quite a bit, and Spartan is going to lock
in damage with the Hydro Cannon, Mi-Cheng no shields, this will not take the knockout.
Could Spartan look to pivot out here, the Ebolyon losing health rapidly, and there is
a pivot out, in comes the MandeBos, but it looks like Corsola, it's going to be very
close if it can make it to the second Power Gem.
And this has gone for the Power Gem here, Spartan wondering whether this usual S.H.I.E.L.B.
shield does, and the final seconds there are not going to be able to take that Rock-type
attack but as you said one more astonishment locks in the second one to
come through and this time there's no shield remaining on Spartan side.
Glaring Corsewood does not have a particularly high attack stat but
super effective power gem will add up and that chip damage is gonna help as
Dondozo hits the field there is still energy stored on the licky-licky for
Spartan and if something will have to keep an eye on for the endgame but it's
man to buzz through Shadow Balls. Shadow Balls an incredibly efficient attack but
this is a Dondozo. Dondozo just an absolute wall shrugging off that
Shadow Ball as his waterfalls get the mandibus lower and lower.
Honestly, not only is it a wall, but you have that shield as well for an extra layer of support.
It just makes it so difficult to get through. A foul play comes through, does take it down into
the yellow, but look at the energy. Outrage has been locked in. No protect shields remaining.
The mandibus is not going to appreciate this damage.
Mandibus desperately trying to hold on. Outrage connects. It is able to hang on and make the
Shadow Ball. Shadow Ball will not knock out the Dondozo, but it should do less than a licky-licky
shadow ball and that's why me chang opts to no shield. Yeah keeping it into the
red with the energy kind of waterfall get to it no switches out back to the
energy of forages comes to me it's steel type counts bar on the opposing side
bug bite farms down get some energy up and now sparking with two Pokemon in the
red zone has a choice to make. There's almost no health remaining on Spartan
side these bug bites are unresisted. It comes like a licky like a licky will
fire off the body slam the shield comes out from me chang me chang just
Desperately needs to be able to form down here. That's one hit point gone
Petty get the farm down. Can he make the sand to me does make the sand to him on charge step priority
The mandibus still around in the back, but it is so incredibly low
This is not lucky lucky save the sand to will come through and absolutely wipe it from the stage as the Mandy bus does it's
Valley and effort gets down onto that fortress and again
There's basically no HP remaining the waterfall gets it done. Dozo rain supreme me check still in the competition
Don Dozo is the wall. Oh my goodness. It was even a sample
knockout. It survived the snarl. What can't it Don Dozo
survive? Mi Chang takes an incredible series. Two games to
one. I mean, that's all you can really ask for, right? Please.
That series that back and forth, the switches, the catches,
the energy management. That was incredible. All the Pokemon
it towards that endgame, we're on tiny tiny increments of HP and it really came down to those fast attacks being able to get the edge.
Whether it was Metal Sound or Waterfall, we knew that we were in for a treat and honestly, I think I'm just shaking off for that.
Seeing the Dothdozo come in, wondering if it was going to be able to hang on. Why was I doubting it? Of course, it's a Dothdozo!
But the Shadow Bugfight Fortress, so much value in that game, being able to get the Resistance Bugfight down at the Apollyon,
Weaning the charge stack by already tying into the licky-licky, that endgame was so incredibly close.
And Spartan tried to get the farm down with the Eboleon, but Mi-Chang able to save the Don Gozo,
bringing the fortress.
Fortress got the farm down and you can see Mi-Chang's reaction.
Mi-Chang knew he's barely able to get the sand tube.
Just a shot that's as close as it can get.
And Mandibus able to stall down one Pokemon, but the bug bite that it had to take Yuzo
meant that it was not going to be enough to hang on against Don Gozo's waterfall.
Honestly the bulk though in these lines is absolutely incredible. We've got the course with it on dozo the forager is the licky-licky as well
It's almost like these Pokemon have been trying to withstand attack since 1989 or something
There was just so much defensive capabilities in play and that's why that game
You know even though there was a lot of damage coming through whether it was the shadow balls coming through or even just the bug bite
Stacking up the fact that they were able to hang on onto those Chinese salids of HP did swing the momentum one way or the other
And what I really liked is both those players choose to play very aggressively
Yeah, they were consistently dancing in and out of matchups never really conceding farm downs and that kind of aggressive play style
Is what helped and we know actually make it to the winners finals was trusting. I don't think it's the Altaria
I'm gonna play aggressive
I don't want to give you any extra energy these energy advantage could flip these matchups
So choosing to stay on the field well not stay on the field actually I stay correct
They did out get a new Pokemon on the field to just try and not give your opponent any little bit of momentum
incredible series between two great players, both played incredibly well, but at the end of the day, only one trainer can stay alive in the tournament.
And that is Weeche.
That is very, very true. And of course, the action in the loser's bracket is going to continue.
We're going to take a short break, but when we come back, we are going to have Ice Kris versus Senna Axe Gal, so don't go anywhere.
I'm here with Jesper Eriksson who won the world championships as a senior right here in San
Francisco 10 years ago in 2016. How are we feeling being back? It feels amazing.
After we were told two years ago that we would go back to San Francisco I
immediately had that goosebumps feeling of wait I get to go back again and with
this being 10 years after maybe the perfect circle can have a closing. Maybe
What would it mean to you to win the world championships here in 2026?
We haven't had a repeat champion in both seniors and masters.
We've seen Jason Klasinski win three times all of them in masters.
We haven't had that from seniors to masters yet.
And I always hope that I can be the first.
Although it's just incredible being here.
And regardless of my result, I'm going to be happy.
I'm going to go here and have a lot of fun.
Like I always want to do at tournaments.
We love to hear it. I mean, what more could we want than a bit of fun? So obviously you have moved from
seniors to masters divisions. What has that journey been like for you?
Well, I've gotten older. I'm a grown-up now, right? Going from 15 now to 25 recently, right?
It's a whole journey enough itself, moving a bit from, you know, being this all-out player to a caster
the game as well. It's just
giving me much more context and
much more perspective in the
game, and it's it's giving me
the experience. So I feel like
when I sit down and I play
against players that I have, you
know, that bit of an edge, right
that you want when you have 19
years of experience as I have.
So it's just an incredible
experience and a journey that I
wouldn't have been the same
without.
Coming from being a seniors
champion, would you have any
advice for the seniors who are
leveling up to masters soon?
don't put too much pressure on yourself, maybe regardless of your results in seniors,
Masters is a new breath of life, it's a new chapter, right?
And the regionals, they're a bit longer, it's a bit more waiting time sometimes between the rounds,
but just more people to play against and have fun with.
And I think if you go in and take the route off, let's have fun at this tournament,
regardless of the size of it, whether that be an IC, a regional championship, or here at Worlds even,
if you have fun with it, you would automatically perform better.
I've fun with it. Go watch the stream this weekend and hopefully I will be there in the
Chase Center Sunday. That is a true dream of mine since we started the whole arena experience.
But yeah, thank you to my family, my girlfriend and Limitless for everything they've done for me.
Thank you so much Jesper. Very good luck this weekend. It could be a full circle
championship Sunday for Jesper. But we have plenty of other competitors you're going to have to
battle through to get there. So with that make sure you stay tuned in all weekend for all of
the action. I'll see you next time.
Inadequance going to Championships Monday.
There you have it, Inadequance. You can see the emotions. He cannot believe it.
I think the Pokemon time that I would be would be fire because I like to play a little bit more aggressive to try and confuse my opponents with
some of the play cells that I do and try to get in their hand a little bit.
Income's guiratino, inadequate says no, no, no.
I started playing PvP when the Go Valley came out,
but as soon as Playpoke won the included Go
in their competitor circuit,
I immediately started playing as well.
The closest one was the 2022 Europe International Championship,
and that's where I joined.
There were about 100 competitors,
and I got to the top eight there.
It was the first time I played in this format.
After that, I went 0-2 in Lune, fortunately,
But I never gave up and at some point I just took this almost every single tournament that I played.
The King of Utrecht wants to be the King of World Championships
and that's a top three at least finished for Inadequates.
My favorite memory is winning the Utrecht Special Event.
It wins the MVP!
Martyn is your Special Event Champion!
I also just played at the World Championship, it's very comparable.
Just the support that I have hearing the crowd go wild when I do something good.
and it looks like I'm going to take this series to zero.
The player that I admire the most is the previous world champion, it's Akson.
He's a very humble and very nice guy and out of all that,
he started making content creation after gaining fame with winning the world championships
and has been very helpful to many new players.
You have trial and error, just play it a lot and eventually you'll get hang of it.
Something that I've learned since I've started competing is that you should never give up, never give up in any battle.
Obviously, when you've got your teammates on your tongue, it's probably over, but any other scenarios.
I have won battles that I thought I could never win, but just keeping my head up and seeing if my opponent could slip just a little bit
and I can still take the victory. That is something I will always remember in any battle that I play.
one miss any of them. I'm Amanda also known as Lumberger here alongside speediest chief too and
what a crazy battles that we've seen the last couple times. Battles are insane and they're only
going to get better from here everybody. We've made our way down to that loser side bracket where
we see trainers like you said putting everything on the field because this is their last chance
to stay in the world championships in our double elimination format. There's I guess one chance
really to lose a match and stay in it and then it's time to go home there's been so many competitors in
this that we haven't even been able to show a lot of them that made it to day two so it's really
nice that we actually get to see some of these people from the losers side of the bracket and the
players are already ready on the stage so we're going to go ahead scoot down there get you guys
right into the action while we take up with an ice crisp and chill it against what was the Senna
the game. Let me tell you
about Senna. Axe gal. They
got knocked down to the
Losers bracket in round one
by Merrill. Say that again.
Round one loss. Beat seven
players, including previous
E Y C champion Tom Tom
to make it to day number two,
and now we are here in Losers
trainer ice Chris ice Chris more standardized team but my goodness these
trainers are so talented I want to hear it in the crowd Amanda come on a round
one loss all the way to day number two let's hear it in the crowd for our
trainers on stage get some cheers going everybody I see you out there the
players for gold the competition is intense and these are going to be very
good battles where they put it all on the line because in a double elimination
tournament. The loser of this matchup is knocked out of the competitions and
their hopes for being a world champion is going to be put on hold for one more
year. We have a few moments before our trainers are locked in. Ice Kris's team
is pretty standard but Senno AxeGal with Dantoso, Hissui and Electrode
Carbink, Shadow Typhlosion, Shadow Pidgeot and Shadow Primate. What a spicy
squad about to face off here against Ice Kris and his more standardized units.
What do you think Amanda is there any Pokemon that just jumps off the screen to you?
Well immediately something that we haven't seen very often at least in this tournament is that shadow type lotion
Running incinerate as its fast attack. It does pace very quickly to moves
But it is overall a fairly squishy Pokemon
We might see it in action as these two trainers are hopping right into battle number one
We have a great lead for Senna Axe gal with that carving up against Altaria
So let's see how Ice-Piss wants to respond.
Coming in with the floor just,
and it looks like the carpet is staying in for a little bit.
Maybe you're hoping to take an attack before swapping out,
storing up quite a bit of energy.
My goodness.
What a dominant lead from Seno-Axcow.
And I think you're right, Amanda.
The Chilling Water will connect here.
That's a great time to swap into Don Dozo.
And that's what Seno-Axcow decides to do.
We've seen Don Dozo so much doing so well
in his past few battles.
Will Seno-Axcow be able to continue that momentum
with that big ol' fish.
It has to take one disarming voice first,
knocking it down to fairly almost half health,
still building up a little bit of energy of its own.
I was gonna say the lack of trailblaze
should make this match up a little bit safer,
but due to that energy advantage
and the same type of attack bonus on the disarming voice,
this Dandozo is getting absolutely trumped away.
Here comes the surf.
Going ahead, throwing the surf here
into this very tight Pokemon.
It is very low health at this moment.
Still, Icecrest puts up a shield,
gaining up a little bit more energy here,
knowing that their best techs aren't going to be able to knock it out and at least threatening another shield or a knockout of his own.
That was on alignment. Icechrist wants to control switch advantage and you've got to understand why he led his Altarion to a car peak,
but Senna Axe-Gal is not going to give it to them. Here comes another waterfall and a KO, securing switch advantage in the mid-game.
Look at that. Hell, left barely anything, but Don Dozo has done its job not only that, has an outrage to boot.
Now, if you're ice Chris, you saw that immediate move into the carbon earlier on knows that even though this is super effective, maybe I'll tell you it doesn't have a lot of usage in this matchup.
Don Dozo putting an absolute overtime here in San Francisco, the suing Electro versus the Epolyon here. Only one shield on each side, but Epolyon does have a slight energy advantage.
Ice Chris is doing the mental math, he's projecting forward. There's no way I can catch up and beat this and suing Electro.
Going ahead, just trying to get as much energy off as possible.
The Drill Peck will be able to connect,
as Sal Axtel doesn't even use a shield at this moment.
Still has a lot of energy on the Hussuin Electro
for themselves.
Now going for that heavy-hitting Wild Charge,
but has to use this protection at first
as the employee gets to its move.
Yeah, this is gonna be a close dynamic
between these two Pokemon that you have very similar attack,
but that Hussuin Electro will be able to fire
after Wild Charge after the protection goes up.
And then just made a swap,
And it's going to be checkmate, as I like to say in chess,
when that carving eats at Altaria once again.
We're back to where we started.
Altaria up against carving.
Carbink has energy now, but it doesn't really
matter because anything that Altaria would throw
would not really do much damage at all.
Senna Outscale having a great read on that first situation
there, getting that lead, getting that end game,
and getting game number one.
And this has to be one of the keys to their success so far,
right?
You said all those rounds won in a loser's side bracket.
running into a team of ice criss with Kanto Meriwak in Polion and
Chilling Water Florges and they decide to lead a carpink of all things.
Are you kidding me?
Wow, it takes a lot of nerves especially to be playing up here on the big stage
and also showing why they've been able to make it so far in the tournament
with such a unique team.
I don't think any of these Pokemon besides that Hissui and Electro
is in that top 12 usage for day number two competitors.
opening up the spice rack into clearance sale. Axel Senkel decided to do exactly that. Going to game number two,
Ice Chris needs to find some adjustments to get himself back into it.
As we take a look back at a previous replay from early on today.
There's been so much going on. Those are just little hints of previous battles going on before,
but in the here and now, this next battle could be it.
So no, Axial just needs one more win to be able to continue their streak to win eight games in a row coming in from
Around one loss against Amaro. Well, not even eight games, eight sets, right? Absolutely. Which is even more impressive if you ask me
But one of our trainers has already locked in Ice Kris realizes this is his last chance
He's two games in a row in order to move on to losers round two if he loses this next battle this next three and a half minutes
are going to decide if Icecrest moves on or if his world championship dreams are coming to an end.
Now that first game was just so instrumental realizing the different nuances within Pokemon Go playing,
because sometimes you don't need switch advantage,
but having such a great lead and winning by just the narrow sub margins that make you not allowing much farm
was the perfect opportunity for Sennil Askal to be able to take that game quite candidly.
but Icecrest is no stranger to the competitive Pokemon Go circuit.
It wouldn't surprise me to see him step back, analyze a little bit,
and come back even stronger for this game number two.
We were talking about core breakers before the series began.
Typhlosion looks pretty hot, but check out that shadow priming.
It's got ice plunge, it's got rage fist,
it's got karate chop, so many different opportunities to hit hard against this team.
Let's check out what we get in game number two though.
It's got to be Pidgeot and Napoleon.
Now, this time here, it looks like Ice-Kris is a little bit more in favor as that steal-tapping for the Empoli is going to be able to not take much damage at all from the fast attacks of the Pidgeot, already charging up a ton of energy, forcing that first-protect shield from Senna Axe-Gal.
This Pidgeot is air-cutter and heat-wave, and that heat-wave is definitely going to threaten the Empoli on. If you're watching day one, you saw some shadow Pidgeot gameplay. This is a very precarious matchup for the Empoli on and Ice-Kris needs to be careful. He calls it! Great call!
cool as I take in that first one there Senno Axel trying to go for a catch on a
not very effective attack and now we have two bulky Pokemon that we've seen
quite a bit in this world championship so far as the Corsula with the sunglasses
comes on to counter this Dandozo. I'm telling you it's not easy to harpoon a
whale they wrote a whole book about that and this Dandozo is almost impossible
to reign in and you have to find creative ways to do exactly that. Here comes a
a surf from the Don Dozo and this Gawarin Corsola will probably no shield.
Goversola as cool as his trainer there with those glasses on saying no need to
worry about this being in the spotlight. I know exactly what to do not even
bobbing to shield up the second one as the second surf connects still gaining a
ton more energy before he's going to throw another attack getting it as low
as possible going for a power gem. Yeah I think that's a great play in case the
swap occurs right because at that point Seno AxeGa could have pivoted back to
to the Pidgeot, aware as always,
Icecriss throws the safe attack and leaves minimal farm.
He's actually tapping on the Impoleon,
might pivot out immediately.
I don't know if that's the best idea though,
because he's gonna run into an Electro, right?
Wow, you're so low on that,
it seems like you fought quite hard for a switch,
but at the same point, this energy lead is going to be great.
You're either gonna strip that last shield,
or you're gonna force your opponent to let a Pokemon go down,
but in comes the Electro,
now no protection left on the side of Senno-Axial,
forced to take his drill pet but getting a ton of energy.
Oh my goodness, this is going to be wild
because the drill pet connects
and that has seen the electrode
only gets shaken down to half HP.
It's got so much energy to go around.
Out comes a flurgis,
but still two protect shields for Ice Cris.
This is actually not,
I'm not gonna say comfortable for Ice Cris,
but the Wild Trout,
even either one of these attacks is enough
to knock out the Pokemon still,
wants to keep it as healthy as possible,
puts up a first protect shield
and now is forced to make a decision.
Do I want to use both protections in this moment?
Absolutely does.
As what was two is now zero,
and the forages is going to come out to play.
Well, Senna L'Axcal realized the switch timer was not there,
but now it is, swaps into a disarming voice.
This is actually not ideal,
because this is the healthiest Pokemon remaining on their team.
That Pijak does hang on though and clutch up the air cutter.
Wow, big plays there by Senna L'Axcal,
The big question is, are they going to be big enough?
This is just an air cutter knocking the Fortress down
to about half health, but it's got more energy
than that Electro does.
It knows it as well as Icecress just deploys
this disarming voice.
A road too far to travel, tiptoeing through the tulips
Fortress with the disarming voice,
Chaos Hussuin Electro.
It takes game number two for Icecress,
tying up the series in this loser's round one.
great series on our hands everybody spicy team from Sennilax gal and a more conventional team
from Icecrisp but he's able to balance himself in that battle number two not lose sight of his
wing conditions and honestly gained a lot of leverage at key points. I mean there was that
point where there was very very little health on the course of the we saw him immediately pivot
out into the pullout a lot of trainers would go ahead and let that Pokemon go down but he didn't
wanted to give any extra energy, any extra opportunity to his opponent. He wanted to really, you know,
dictate how the switch was going to go, put himself in the driver's seat, and that's what helped him gain
game number two. Got it correct myself here. I looked at the team sheets and Senno Axe Gal's
shadow crime-afe is actually running rage fist cross chop, which might explain why we're not
seeing it in this series. I think Ice Clench would provide a lot more coverage, but that cross
is a bit faster and gives you that same type attack bonus stab fighting pressure.
I think with Licky being the number one Pokémon used in this meta,
it's not surprising to see a fighting type Pokémon that actually uses a fighting type attack.
Sometimes we've seen them with a fighting type fast attack,
but more of a coverage attacks in their charges.
That's not as helpful against the Licky-Licky.
However, a Crosstrop is going to do a lot of damage.
a damage. And it's so much more consistent than something like a pangoro that needs to close combat to deal that hard getting fighting type damage and it debuffs itself by two stages in the process.
Well, trainers, we're almost ready to go into game number three. One of our competitors is locked in. This is match point, loser goes home.
You see Icecrest looking at that camera, realizing this could be my big moment. I need to win this game. And he's starting off with that Altaria up against that climate.
that primate we just talked about that doesn't have an ice punch to really fight back.
Primate forced to be throwing the rage fist, boosting its own attack.
The longer this matchup goes on and the more shields invested, the better it gets for the
shadow primate, but it's going to lose a lot of HP in the process due to all that dragon
breath pressure.
So I would not be surprised to see Senna Axe-Gal swap out.
Going ahead now, going for that sky attack.
This would definitely be enough to knock out the primate at that safe Senna Axe-Gal, putting
up that first protect shield in time and seeing how much more energy they can get off as the
second ragefish goes aboard and this primate is boosting up.
Second ragefish connects.
Altaria now down to the red, not really threatened by the cross chops, but this third ragefish
is on charge attack priority.
Ready to go.
This will provide a KO and I don't know if Icecrest can afford to let this Altaria faint.
Yes, he is going to let it go.
Go ahead, letting that go down, choosing to keep a shield of damage in comes first.
Now we see an immediate pivot, doesn't matter if it's boosted or not,
doesn't want to see that fairy Pokemon.
And looks like Ice Crust staying in for a little bit,
could have opted to go for Chimuata first to lower the attack of the Dandozo,
but actually going for that heavier hitting, same type of tech bonus,
and trying to get this Dandozo as low as possible.
You heard the sound of the trumpet, it was more like a raspberry,
but the swap into the Impoleon to catch this serve is very good,
and it's going to keep Ice Kris in this matchup
and keep his forward just healthy.
An employee on that so far managed to avoid that primary
which is great for Ice Kris just getting up
a little more energy and now with only one shield up
on Senegal Axe Gal's team,
it gets a little more dangerous the more energy
this employee on gets because a drill peck
would definitely be enough to knock out that primary.
Exactly, and I think Ice Kris wants to carry energy
over into the next matchup no matter what.
That's why you see him double up here,
throwing the first drill peck to likely secure the KO,
but it's going to be super close if I'm being honest.
And doors are just so thick.
Yeah, and finally, getting through the plover,
and Polyon picks up a knockout, does have energy to spare,
but it's not going to like the fast attacks
that are about to come its way.
Keep in mind, Icecress has two shields left in this.
Immediate pivot out that, I may came in now,
then shoot an electrode, it's here to soak up the damage,
but there's only one protect shield to hide behind,
and Ford just has two knocking down the Hsu and Electro
to have about half health.
Going for another charge attack now.
Yeah, I really like Ice Cris throwing right now.
He doesn't want to lock himself in to charge that priority
tie against the electrode.
If he can help it, does pull away that final shield
still to protect those fries.
Chris, I don't know Amanda, he might have this one in the bag.
Going ahead, going for a charge attack.
I've already even heard this.
Number three disarming voice is disarming this Hsu and Electro.
There's no shields to high find.
down it goes in comes the primary with not enough gas in the tank to get through this
pokemon ice chris with the reverse sweep the power of floor dis compels ice chris the losers round
two over an extremely talented trainer from japan an epic losers bracket run it comes to an end
a senilex gal has been eliminated ice chris taking it a little bit further one step at a time to
Stay in this tournament, World Champion Dreams still alive,
but everyone needs to give it a percentile axe scale
and the amazing run that they had so far
at the World Championships, losing in round one
and having to play that many matches,
being able to get that far, knocking out
previously just international champions,
there's no small feat.
I wanna highlight one Pokemon in particular.
It was the star of the show, or should I say the bouquet.
That was the Florgis from Icecriss.
The disarming voice is very good
in the Malamar matchup in particular.
I think that's the main reason why a lot of trainers
opt for that instead of Trailblaze,
but it looks really powerful in neutral matchups as well.
Like the Dandoso matchup, two disarming voices
plus a few fairy winds seem to secure that knockout
more often than not.
And I think that Florgis looks more like a neutral beast
in that series than a Malamar specialist.
Florgis in the past couple of tournaments
has more often been using Trailblaze
its own attack but disarming voice I tell you what there's been definitely a case for it and we've
seen all of these talented trainers use it here in the world championships and I think that maybe
this could be it going forward. Very fun team there from Ice Chris he does uh he just progresses
way through the bracket still and a couple of question marks right like we've talked about the
fairy type pokemon pretty often the ticatin the florgis he's also running Altaria which we saw
in Marto Galdes team and he's done pretty well for himself too. Again a lot of the times if you see
all these Pokemon being picked over and over and over again, it can dissuade the casual player from
saying, oh, well, maybe I can't bring the one I'm most comfortable with because it's probably going
to get hard countered. But there are still targets for those Pokemon. Just so much of competitive
Pokemon go comes down to alignment, team reading and prediction. A lot of it is skill, obviously.
They have to be very talented trainers to be able to make it here to the main stage. But in this
double elimination tournament, and since we are on the loser side of the bracket, that does mean
our field is going to continue to narrow.
We already have two people on that winter side
waiting to slog it out in the winter finals,
but we have a lot more to go on that loser side
to see who's going to be up playing against him.
It's been a wonderful weekend so far,
but we want to see what you're saying at home.
Let's see what our friends are posting on socials.
We got some stamp rally action here from Shea Minero.
Oh, my legs hurt.
Mine too.
I was walking around trying to find as many of the stamp rallies
of sites around San Francisco as possible.
Once you collect that stamp, you get the Pikachu
with the astronaut helmet on.
Very cool.
Mine actually has the San Francisco Bridge background
behind it.
And it's, I don't want to brag, guys, but it is shiny.
I like how you bragged a little bit,
and then you double down.
I don't want to brag, but I actually.
By the way, the background costume XP Pikachu
is also shiny.
And look at this as well.
We do have our plush, I guess plushy parade, you call it,
around the XP Center.
That Pikachu looks absolutely incredible
and slow poke is there.
I heard some other Pokemon are also appearing like Mimikyu.
Yeah, looking mighty royal out there
and as a Pokemon says,
the real reason to go to Pokemon Worlds,
check out this XP stage.
There's so much going on here in San Francisco.
We have the tournament battles going on.
We have things going around all around San Francisco.
So make sure to keep tuning in to the different streams
as well.
and get cool twitch drops, you're gonna see some great battles and you're also gonna get to see a lot of fun events.
I mean, no offense Amanda, but if you were trying to talk to me and there was Pikachu's dancing on stage behind you,
I don't think I'd hear a word of what you're saying.
I tell you what, there must be Pikachu's dancing behind me always, because I swear we'll never hear a word of what I am saying.
You don't see them?
Oh, they're there. They're there. They're there, right, chat? Help me out, chat. Come on. Come on.
All right, but our next set of trainers are getting set up on stage and that is 100% real.
Cannot wait to see this next pairing because we are going to, I guess, witness a trainer from NA
versus another trainer from APAC. I was just going to be Auburn versus Yodana30.
We have seen Auburn play yesterday. We got to cast some of his matches. Once again, this is that
loser side of bracket. We will continue on on this side until we let you know. That means that in
in this loser's round two.
Once again, this is the elimination portion
of a double elimination tournament.
Amanda, you see it, right?
I do.
You see it on the TUC?
I do.
What does she see, Chat?
What does she see?
We see the Reykjord.
Ooh, we saw Reykhoiza yesterday.
Let's keep the dragon starting with R.
Rolling, Reggie Drago for Yo-Dada.
It's gonna be a fascinating pick.
And again, we were talking about Pokemon
that might not succeed in Tinketun and Forge's Vedas.
This thing has no hope of fighting back against any Tinketun with Wrap and Dragon Energy as
it's likely Charge Attack, so, or excuse me, Vice Grip and Dragon Energy, different normal
attack.
So going ahead, it will charge up rather quickly with those Dragon Breaths.
Dragon Energy will do a nice chunk of damage Vice Grip for, you know, some just regular
type matches, but you're absolutely right.
With Tinketun being in that top three usage, I'm really excited to see if that's going
to come into play and how Yodara is going to be able to just maneuver around.
So I'm going to make an assumption here.
If you look at the teams, Yodara does have a slight tinketun weakness, I'd argue, but
they, I guess, short up that weakness with the Haseung Electrode with the Glaring Corsola.
Shadow and Polyon, which is likely a bit more punishing with those enhanced metal sounds.
And I would venture to say the tinketun for Yodara is probably a little bit attack weighted.
I also want to point out one thing about that Shadow and Polyon.
It is not on Metal Sound, it is on Waterfall as it's fast attack, making it a little bit
better into those Tinketons matchups.
So perhaps this is the answer that he could be looking for.
I mean a little bit better, not only to Tinketon, but you want Waterfall if you're up against
a Kento Ninetales or a Shadow Kento Marowak.
So if Auburn is expecting one Pokemon to come out in every battle, he's got to bet
it will be that Shadow Impoleon from Yo-Data.
process of elimination you say okay well how can he protect that in polio what
does it mean to you on my team what is he likely to pair with it
go ahead and take a look at these two teams we have one trainer all ready
locked into this battle another one just taking a bit longer to do so making
sure that they're analyzing their team composition I think a lot of trainers at
this stage when they're picking their three they're already going through a
mindset of okay I'm gonna leave this Pokemon and if my opponent leads X I'm
going to do this. If they leave this, I'm going to do this. And this is kind of a matrix style
that you can go through to be able to make sure that you're putting your safest foot forward.
Exactly. You want a game plan for every possible situation. Hold that information in your mind
and respond in real time. Let's go right down to the stage, everybody. This is battle number one
in Losers Round Two, Auburn versus Yodada. Going ahead with that shadow, Canto Meruac,
up against the red rug. We thought maybe we wouldn't see it because it has such a glaring
He's wearing Tic-Tac-Tum weakness, your devil says he'll watch me as he brings it in, in the lead, not scared at all, trying to get up a ton of energy.
Auburn now swaps into his Licky-Licky, you're able to start soaking some damage and start throwing off some body slams.
Across all competitive Pokemon, Dragon typing has historically been one of the strongest and the Dragon energy rips away an enormous amount of HP from that Licky-Licky.
Outcomes Shadow, Waterfall, and Holy On, but the Shadow Ball is also ready as a response.
Shadow ball going to be able to connect as your daughter doesn't put up a
protection here as you can see that there's quite a bit of damage remembering
that this is a shadow type Pokemon a body slam now coming through if your
daughter is counting recognizing it's not going to do that much damage for
getting it desperately desperately low I think what he's hoping is he's gonna
have enough for a waterfall to be able to throw but he recognizes he wouldn't be
able to in his force to throw on this low health licky licky yeah great way to
salvage situation there from Auburn able to expend the energy that would have
and very, very harmful to the rest of his team.
Merrillak does get the mudslap down.
Reggie Drago and Mantine.
This is a great opportunity to bring out the Mantine,
but if he does, he's going to corner himself
against the Tinkertown later.
But the real question is, does Yodara predict
that is the Tinkertown in the back?
Looks like he does, as he comes back in with that Reggie Drago,
has to put up a protection here as the Kanto Merrillak
already has some energy loaded, and this bone club
wouldn't necessarily threaten the knockout
would get very low.
In comes that Tinkertown, and in comes that Mantine.
It's going to be a little tricky.
Yodara tapping right on that water pulse.
Just as soon as his water flying type Pokemon hit the field,
Digitun Hammer will connect no shield on the first charge
attack here from Auburn.
Again, swinging the hammer down.
Look how much damage that does for a not very effective attack.
Already now at the water pulse on the side of Yodara,
throwing it here, getting the protect shield from the Tinkitun
on the side of Auburn, because it just
wants to continue to ramp up energy.
Tinkitun, it's all going to be about this Pokemon
for the rest of the time, the teams have been revealed,
the Regidrago is on the field,
this next Uniton Hammer is going through.
Yeah, I mean, think about it, right?
In terms of relative damage,
Tinkiton doesn't need to shield anything
from the Regidrago.
It's either a double-resistant dragon energy
or a single-resistant vise grip,
so Auburn just can go on autopilot
and say, I'm just gonna shield up all these water pulses
instead, out comes the Regidrago,
and strong as it may,
it's not gonna be able to make much headway at all
versus the Tinkiton.
The Regidrago has a lot of energy on this Pokémon.
once the Giants try to chip away as much as possible,
but neither one of these attacks
are going to be doing very much at all.
There's still a protect shield left on the side of Mantine,
but such low health, this bulldoze going through,
not enough to knock out, but enough to get Auburn
a little bit more fast attack energy
as the club goes down swinging.
Absolute insanity here, Auburn tamed the dragon
in game number one.
Great job by him to take the victory
And the Ticket Ton had to be the key.
Also, I mean, great read in the mid game from Yo-Dada,
because that could have ended up, you know,
Ticket Ton versus Registroco a lot earlier.
But he called it, set out the Registroco against the Merrill
Wack, and at least gave himself a chance.
I think the big problem for Yo-Dada in that mid magic
was he saw the Merrill Wack at the beginning.
And as an opponent, you don't want
to take any of those fast attack damage.
And already taking a Shadow Ball, put it down quite low.
I think he was hoping to get that Licky Licky out of the way,
and then be able to throw a Hydro Cannon,
and at least threatened a shield.
Unfortunately, wasn't able to do so.
Licky Licky was able to hang on a little bit too long
and all of the energy got forced out
on a very low health Pokemon.
No, you nailed it.
I think that was also a critical moment
in that battle number one.
Going to game number two,
I think answering the take a time
is the number one objective here for Yo-Data.
That Empolion seems like one of the better answers.
Mantine also can kind of wiggle its way
through that matchup over time.
I don't know, I mean, if you bring your
DeLarion course list, your data, you might run into a Malamar or a Licky Licky.
Feels like you're kind of limited.
I wouldn't be surprised, honestly, to see the Hissuin Electrokin out here.
You just got to find the Tinkerton counters, right, for that team.
Because if you think about it, those man team was there in that last matchup.
It was matched up against the Tinkerton, and even still the Tinkerton, you know,
in the hands of a great trainer like Auburn, with two protection shields to hide behind,
just played that massively and took that endgame quite
decisively.
I really appreciate how he just showed up those water pulses
in the end as well, recognizing that relatively speaking,
those with the hardest hitting charges
tax left in the game, a lot of trainers
adopt that mindset as well, especially
once they approach the endgame and identify their win cons.
They say, well, is this going to hurt the most out
of anything my opponent can throw at me?
If so, that's an easy call for a shield.
Now these two trainers really have
to think about what they want to do
for this next game.
If Auburn is able to take this,
he will continue into Loser's Ground 3,
while Yota Dada, a trainer from Taiwan,
who we don't get to see play so often,
but has played so well throughout this championship circuit,
will be going home.
Will he be able to reverse sweep,
like we saw in the last round?
We'll find out as we get into game number two here.
We have that Shadow and Polion with Waterfall,
up against the Malamar on the side of Auburn.
Now, with Metal Sound, this would be even pacing
and a Polion would win the charge attack priority.
But because it is a Waterfall and Polion,
It's going to be a little bit slower your data needs to call out. Is this a superpower that would one shot mindfully on?
Or is it a foul play he shields regardless?
It's so hard to call right because a superpower at that range would be enough to knock out the Pokemon and Malamar could immediately swap out to clear
the debuff giving up the texture back and find is at least a good thing for him as the Malamar protects up that first hydro cannon
Already at another super power going over a little bit over at this time
and Auburn is going to throw that heavy hitting attack.
Will Yoda Dada go down two shields at the beginning matchup?
No, he lets him fully on go.
Malomar has deep up itself severely,
instantly goes into the Hussuin Electro.
But Auburn wants more.
He's going to go ahead and force the foul play
from the Malomar as well, and at this rate,
I mean, you might get the undershot down.
I don't know if Auburn needs to switch.
The big thing about throwing the superpower
is not only is your defense lower,
but your attack is lower too.
Doesn't surprise me that we didn't see
the protect shield there.
However, now Yodagata has two wild charges loaded,
four Gigaton is at that Gigaton hammer.
Throwing the first one here,
Auburn puts up the protection forward
and now immediately a pivot from Yodagata into that Mantine.
Yeah, into the Mantine, Auburn there.
Looks pretty solid.
I kind of think he's too flustered by this pick coming out.
Kind of expected it to be there.
Gigaton hammer number one does connect.
Only one shield remaining in this game
and it's on the right side of your screen.
Water pulse is ready, but the Gigaton hammer comes first.
this change things a little bit while Auburn had two shields in this matchup
before now he has none to protect himself up against those water pulses and
he's going to have to take one because the switch timer is not quite up yet.
He could come back in with that Malomar but it is very low health or he could show
his third Pokemon which he hasn't obviously immediately put for that
Licky Licky come in and try to get some energy and Yododara goes for another
water pulse. Yeah we're seeing kind of a cascade right every 10 second interval
that the switch timers to display allows Auburn to bring in a different Pokemon, get some energy on it.
He's doing that right now with Licky Licky allows him to paste the body sand.
This is soon an election where we'll probably withstand this, but it'd be so weak,
you might not guarantee it more than one charge stat.
I don't think that are not taking any chances there, charging up a little bit extra energy.
You know he's counting precisely and actually goes for the heavy-pitting Wildtrip.
This is the last Pokemon he has, which means it's going to be debuffed for the rest of this matchup, and it is enough!
Wow, Licky, Licky goes down.
I don't think the Switch Trimer is ready for Auburn,
but he's going to wait out every precious second
that he can to try to get back to it.
He might need to catch a Wild Charge here to win this game.
He does have his timer, but he doesn't catch.
He's going to force the energy out.
I apologize. This is a mistake.
I can even see that there's a little bit of that Mantine Lush.
The Yorda Dada definitely has a little bit of play.
That Switch Trimer is up at this point.
The Ticket Dunn comes back in.
Will he be able to make it?
He barely makes it to the Wild Charge!
Yo, Dada with a knowing nod.
He says this wild charge is all the charge I need bringing down the ticket ton and evening up the series
Wild wild gameplay for game number two. They're three wild charges deployed
My goodness this man knows how to play. I mean a wild game three wild charges
Going to game number three the question again becomes adjustments Reggie Drako in battle number one got walled out by ticket
this time opting for a more flexible trio in the right column there of Napoleon,
Mantine and Tinketon I believe. Oh excuse me, in the Hussain Electro, you know,
Dada found his way. So going into game number three, I think the Napoleon is a
staple. I don't think that pick is going anywhere. I think Mantine is also pretty
necessary for him to win this series. But the third Pokemon, what's up with debate?
I mean, also for Auburn, right? I mean, both of these matches have been so
incredibly close. It could be flipping either way. I've been having a great call with a Tinkerton.
I believe Tinkerton, if you're talking about Pokemon that are going to be there every single
game, we're going to see them pulling them, but we're definitely going to see that Pokemon
as full on the side of Auburn. Oh yeah, no, absolutely. Tinkerton has been instrumental
thus far in the event for Auburn, not just in the series, but in series past,
and that Pokemon is so powerful. If anything, you need to bring it just in case your dad
had tried to pull the Regidrago card one more time. That was a bold call at the beginning,
And you know what? While it didn't pay off for him in game number one, it does make your opponent think a little bit, right?
Okay, okay. I can't just have Tinkercun and perhaps the rest of my Pokemon week to that Red Dragon because if it comes back in,
I could be in trouble if the alignment is not in my favor.
Studied, prepared, locked and loaded. Auburn's team is set. Yo, data's taking just a few more moments to mull things over.
this is match point everybody whoever loses this next game the next three and
a half minutes will decide if you move on to losers round three or if your world
championships are over. Both of these trainers taking that moment on stage
recognizing what they need to do to be able to continue on into losers round
three. This is a big moment for these trainers we have a lock-in by both of
them if you guys are ready we're gonna kick it now to the game. Game three
everyone. Match point, Shadow Kanto Nintel sees a very tasty target in that ensuing electrode.
Immediate pivot into Waterfall Employment Match by that Shadow Kanto Marowak. I think this looks
pretty good for Auburn. This is damage on damage as well though because look how much those waterfalls
are chunking but at the same breath putting up this protection Auburn can be able to just start
mud slapping away the employ on here coming out with a ton of energy of his own. Waterfalls
looking pretty refreshing for the Kanto Marowak as it wins that matchup and maintains control.
Switched advantage, out comes the student electrode. Rock slide to a boot. This is going to pile on
some very valuable chip damage. You know, I love it when trainers prove you're wrong.
Tipton just proving so strong for Auburn in game number one and doing so well for game number two.
Not even here. Playing mind games with Yododara in game number three, which I'm sure he thinks
that it's lurking in the back. The fact that this Marowak has been able to knock through one
One Pokemon and almost two is so, so impressive.
An excruciating farm down, being double resisted,
those Thunder Shots finally get the better
at the Kanto Merrill Act.
Two wild charges ready to go.
I do think Kanto and I just can tank at least one.
Auburn only has one protect shield left,
so he allows it through.
Go ahead, letting that one go,
and now come here with the Mantine.
Auburn knows, look at that, he knows immediately.
He was at the energy pool, both doesn't even
which immediately throws that energy ball.
I know that third's gonna be that manton gets the defense drop even more. Oh my goodness
You see Yoda data wins as this licky licky comes in it's time to roll out as my friend ludo once said here comes a
Waterpulse this is probably gonna connect into the licky licky, but Auburn decides to let it connect anyway
He can take one more might get a little precarious if this man team decides to twist her fate
But that's a long road to travel going ahead and fling this body slam here
no protection on the side of Yodara Dada. As a reminder, there is another wild
turn. We're not even able to get to the attackers. The rollout damage goes through
and looks like Yodara Dada is basically conceding this match. I'm not
throwing any energy setting down his phone. Auburn's clicking all the buttons
and taking game number three. Auburn survives his encounter with Reggie
Drago and Yodara from Taiwan. Incredibly well done by him to advance the losers
round two as you can see the pure elation on his face.
The Auburn is one of the few trainers left I believe from North America in this tournament
is on that loser's side of the bracket where I believe they all are now who are left so
it's going to be very interesting to see which region is going to be able to take home the
title again.
As a reminder we started out the day with eight trainers from Japan which is absolutely incredible.
of trainers from Europe, from North America, and also from the Latin region, and they love
Jai, who's playing absolutely phenomenally representing Oceania.
I mean, are you kidding me, right?
Top 32, and a quarter of them are from Japan?
My goodness, such incredibly talented trainers, and such a treat to see them play on the world
stage.
But you're right, Auburn, one of the few candles in the night for North America as a
region and he's going to look to continue his winning ways. Yodata unfortunately eliminated
from the competition. But what an impressive series we got to witness there. Bring that
Richie Drago. I really like in game one, Yodata just taking the chance, right? It's your signature
Pokemon, your opponent, things that are prepared for it. Why not? Just leave it all in the line.
That's exactly what I did. Look at this loser bracket. Look how many more games we have to go.
We started on that winner side. Plenty of them have been knocked down earlier today. Go ahead,
take a screenshot if you want because this is going to change very quickly but a lot of these
trainers are already out of the tournament including the Honolulu finalists and addipants who won
two regional competitions this season with your Tina altered brought it to worlds as well was able
to make it to the winners finals that knocked down to the losers finals but unfortunately knocked
out round one by out of pocket. Let's zoom in a little bit further to the top eight as we put
these trainers under a bit of a microscope and it's been an incredible journey, but Hiromaru and M.E.
Wido are in the winners finals right now from Japan and from I believe. He's from Switzerland. Switzerland.
Those are our two trainers there and they're just kind of waiting right? They're waiting in the wings,
reviewing their matchups, probably stretching and getting a snack because they're just going to be a
little bit of time before they take the stage again. What's really cool about both of these trainers
is here tomorrow we haven't gotten an opportunity to see so much gameplay from them being a trainer
coming from Japan knocking down one of his fellow people from I believe it was a Contono
Contono being able to knock him down to that lunar side of the bracket if he is able to take this
he'll be the first Japanese trainer to be our world champion or be in the world championship
finals. M.E. Weedle is our only senior division world champion as a so I mean I think that he
has a world championship title already to his name. Will you said earlier on that you don't think
we're ever going to get a repeat world champion. Do you count the senior division in this? Do you
think M.E. Weedle still got a shot? That's the twist I didn't expect and whenever you call me out
like that. You're like, you said one time, I think, oh, no, I'm in trouble. Chucky doesn't have that
clip, right? That's lost to the wins. But I don't know. It's definitely a possibility. And he's shown
that he took down some of the best trainers in the world to get to this point. Emmy Weedle has
looked practically unstoppable here on out. So I don't know. I mean, I might have to eat my words.
Is that what you want to hear? Well, I would love that. We are down to the main stage. You can take
a peak at the trainers who are down there.
We have Potomac, a trainer from Spain,
arguably one of the best trainers
that we have this season.
And he is playing against the staple of North America
out of pocket.
Both of these two are international champions,
pocket winning North America,
and Potomac winning EUIC, two years in a row.
A big thing about this is Pocket knocked out
the Honolulu finalist in Adequence.
Is he going to knock out last year's finalist,
Hata Men?
Because if so, he could have a reputation start here.
All right, goodness.
These trainers getting warmed up for their Pokemon Go matches.
I mean, that's essentially where the foil is down to, right?
Yeah, a little bit of rock, paper, scissors
actually going on on stage.
You want to play back here, too?
Yeah, do you go on three, or do you go on Go?
Let's go on one, two, three, Go.
All right, ready?
One, two, three, Go.
No one saw it.
Let the record show everybody, but this is going to be a fascinating matchup.
Potta Man again, losing round three of EUIC this year, fighting his way through 13 sets
to get to the grand finals and then two additional best of fives after that in order to claim
the crown.
So he's no stranger to being in this position that requires such grit and such fortitude
in the loser side.
Rack is out of pocket, like you pointed out, international champion, yes, but doesn't seem
like he has that success that often at the regional level.
I mean, this season, he lost in the grand finals of Seattle
to Stone Collection, another trainer from EU.
And if I had to boil down that series,
my hot take is that Pocket just didn't take enough chances.
He had his little nine tails, he had some good matchups,
but was just too concerned about being hard counted.
So personally, what I want to see from Pocket is confidence
and picking the Pokemon that he thinks will succeed
and kind of maneuvering around the obstacles
that you need to in order to get there.
Well, you know what, when you mentioned that,
I know that you interviewed him earlier on,
asking him about Pokemon that he could be using
in the Go Battle League.
And I see the three Pokemon that he said
that he uses in the Go Battle League on his team of six.
So maybe he has been practicing with this,
recognizing his win conditions
against the whole meta of Pokemon.
So he knows exactly what he's doing
when he's on this world stage.
Maybe Reddy does not even have to take risks
because he knows those matchups inside and out.
Well, sticking up those go battle league Pokemon that translate over to the show six pick three format if pocket wins
I'm gonna need to see him do that don dozo dance
It's got a twist right when the fin comes up
Let's see if you can do that now one thing to point out with that shadow fortress that he has on his team
It's really come back and forth all season of whether people are using bolt switch as a fast attack for it or bug bite
this is going to be using love bite and when you have a course law on the other team doesn't look as great
But when you also have a Malamar and a shadow on it that like Paco man starting to look better and better
So but that's what these two trainers are doing when they're taking a look at each other's teams recognizing
Okay, there are some Pokemon on them that I maybe need to avoid and I say that it's from out of pocket the Paco man
You can go ahead and flip that as well because I see the exact same Pokemon on their team
There are those three Pokemon that are the same and then other Pokemon that have similar utilities
But a little bit different with that don dozo and also with that miload on the side of paddle man
I'd love to see some of the spicier picks also excel of course the don dozo for how the pocket is pretty fun
But we do have box of Ancelio and we're having so much fun in the venue everybody. It's been a great time thus far
Oh, I wonder who I wonder who he was cheering for with that giant duck in the air. I wonder, right?
Okay, lots of Poptiman fans out here in the stands, but that's Celio.
I think that is a fascinating pick and I thought it would perform better than it has this weekend.
So Poptiman can pilot that Pokemon to success.
You might speak volumes of, you know, my instincts as well.
I just see it.
Pocket taking a deep breath at that moment, analyzing as he's continuing to decide what he wants to lock in for his team.
Potsman looking pretty cool and collected here making some notes, but he has locked in
He's made the decision of what he wants to do for this game number one that we're gonna get started very very soon
Well, you know the rules of dodge ball, right?
You can dodge a brick. You can dodge a ball. Duck dip dive duck and dodge. Here comes
Potsman versus out of pocket
We're gonna get the Celio lead from Potsman into that bug bite shot a fortress pocket. Again, Steven
I know a bug bite, which would not be doing as much damage, and immediate pivot to a very safe swap if you take a look at these teams of the Corsula.
I guess Otto Man just figured that the Autopocket did not bring that licky-licky at all because when I say save, it's not as safe when that licky-licky could come in to negate all of that fast attack and one of the charge attack energy.
Yeah, you're exactly right. What a risky safe swap, but it's paying off really well.
Hawkeye needs to set himself up to start to counter that Galarian Corsula, connects the Rock Tomb there,
then hivots into his own Galarian Corsula, and I will point out as well, that both of these Ghost Tide Pokemon are best buddied and have the ribbon.
We're on ahead now, throwing its first Night Shaker. Now the Rock Tomb was able to connect with Potho Man's Corsula between this attack,
even though it's super effective, is not going to be doing as much damage, but he did use up that Switch Timer,
now swapping into his Celio putting up a first protection because if that was
barred him would do it just a little more damage. Oh yeah super effective damage
as Celia does not want to tank but this is a very bulky, blubbery Pokemon that
can absorb a lot of damage over time. Surf does not hit that hard but out of
pocket wants to keep his glaring course light in the match. He's gonna shield it
here. And that's a big thing about the Celio. Yes it paces quickly but those
body slams aren't going to be doing too much damage at all to the course light.
It has to go for the heavier hitting and a little more energy attack with that sort of two shields used by Patsyman in this matchup against Of Course Law.
And you talked about Blobber, Will. We have another Blobbery Pokemon hitting the field here, but this Celio already has a bit of energy.
We're going to go ahead and chill off the body slam.
Yeah, this is going to be a pretty long matchup if Patsyman decides to stay in here, or excuse me, if Patsyman decides to stay in.
He does have the potential to swap over to his fortress
and move the pieces around.
Outrage will connect because there are no potentials left
in this game.
Absolutely.
Angry this don dozo is, as this is able to connect.
Knocking that serial down quite low, but not out.
How come goes for one more fast tackle
before going for another body slam?
But we saw how the first one didn't do quite enough.
I think he's hoping to be able to get to one more forward.
He has knocked out.
You see that quick pivot into the fortress
to just start bug biting.
Yeah, thanks, Andrew T. Hanna, to Celio,
which is going to be really nice in the endgame.
Surf coming through here, and this book on so huge
that the graphics are covering the screen.
This thought that washes over that shadow fortress.
It out comes the mirror matchup.
Look at how far Pothr made his head.
Able to get to him.
The real question is, will he be able to get a full farm down?
Absolutely not.
Pocket shake in his head, yes, and he's
able to get to an attack, knocking out this fortress,
putting himself in a very advantageous position
with very little left on the Corsula
and very little left on the CLEO.
Out comes the Dondozo once more, and there it is,
the Dondozo tail whip picks up the K.O.
And it gets another one.
Dondozo is feasting in San Francisco.
You say you want to see the twist?
Pocket shows you the twist as he's
able to knock out Potemann's Pokemon,
taking him game number one in this loser's round two.
Such a gutsy call-out to swap that Galarian Corsair, right?
My goodness, Potemann took a risk there.
kind of stumbled in the mid game,
you take a little zoomed in look at out of pocket's team.
You've probably seen his team on stream earlier today,
but just wanted to give you a closer insight
into some of the movesets here.
Out of pocket playing a clawtzire,
which a lot of people thought there would be more of
in this tournament, but I haven't seen too many of them.
A lot of trainers hear the ground-clutch Pokemon
that could potentially be there,
but turns out there's not as many of them as expected,
and it could be why a pocket is doing so well
in this tournament as a reminder,
is a fast attack stone edge for the flying type of month and earthquake to help for a big, you know, mutual coverage.
Of course, Glotsire's got great coverage and great bulk, but in this series the Dondozo was the real finisher.
I don't know everybody. You might want to stay out of the bay. I heard there are Dondozo's looking around San Francisco today.
One has taken the number one.
If out of pocket is able to secure game number two as well,
he's knocked out,
I don't know who the finalist in that offense
and also last year's Anaheim finalist,
Potomac, the pressure is on the pocket.
That's right.
It's a battle.
Number two everybody.
We're going to get a glaring Corsola lead
from out of pocket into that shadow bug by fortune
from Potomac.
Actually going for one bug by then immediately
into the Renove and Stunfist and looks like Prophet is content to just stay in this matchup and throw its first nightshake
giving a nice chunk of damage often with the Renove and Stunfist as no pickaxe he appears on the side of Prophet Man.
Two bulky Pokemon in a very neutral matchup.
Switch Trimmer continues to take down for Prophet Man and if Out-of-Pocket wants to make a swap, he's got to do it pretty soon.
But as you pointed out, just based on his body language and his playstyle, he doesn't seem too concerned.
He's saying, alright, yep, I know I can take it. He's done everything here.
He knows the damage calculations of his Pokemon.
He knows that his Pokemon actually even swapped in,
so we have a little bit of an energy advantage.
Taking mudbomb number two,
knocking that fortress left down into the yellow
and going for it in his next nightshade.
Now, the real question is,
is the nightshade enough to knock out
the Noven Sanctus at this small health?
It's gonna be super close.
I don't think it's quite enough.
One more astonishment is needed,
but that Noven Sanctus does bail out.
Now when the fortress near match up,
I feel like Potomac's fortress is losing health
little bit faster than I've just seen things.
Well, it did start at the very beginning.
It did take a fast step from the course look
before swapping, I believe.
But even still, a little bit of energy advantage
and helping to make a bigger advantage as well
as this first sand tune goes through,
lowering the defense of the Pokemon entire cut pocket.
It says, you know what, that looked like a good idea.
I want to do it too.
You know, Pokemon looks so confident.
I'm beginning to wonder if he called that Glary Corsula
as the third Pokemon.
And he knows as Licky Licky will be able to handle it.
I wonder if he saw that far ahead.
Rock to will pick up the knockout here and out of pocket wants to keep his
fortress around some huge shields. No, uh, not gonna happen. I may be a little bit
deep and stuff, but I'm gonna do everything possible. Okay, he was swaying. He
was ready. And now he is happy because he understands that this is his moment.
Absolutely locked in pocket made a prediction. That glaring course. So now
staring down the licky, licky two shields to pop the man's name. Yes, and two
Pokemon he can potentially swap to but the shadow balls are not going to stop
There's got to be a barrage of ghost type attacks headed his way
Oh, no, correctly shielding up that shadow ball is a huge for pats a man getting up a ton of energy himself
There's no protection left on out of pocket side
So all of this energy all of this charge attack damage is going to be able to hit full front
Only one protection left on the side of pats a man here
He's going to throw his next power gem,
getting that Licky Licky a little bit closer down,
but definitely not out.
Hottiman fans, you better hold on,
because if he's going to win this game,
it's going to come down to the wire,
and the roller coaster already started great catch
on the shadow ball onto his fortress.
Wall pocket was set up with such attentiveness,
recognizing he had a great win condition.
Hottiman starts to even up the score
as these low-level Pokemon come in taking attacks,
throwing out their own and getting this Licky Licky
down as low as possible.
Reaching up through the grave, you know,
but Stumpfist tries its best.
Outcomes Potomans going of course up,
but he's so far ahead on energy.
There's still a protection for Potomans,
though Nightshade coming through.
This has to take that final shield that it guns.
Going ahead, using that last protection,
and this is getting down to the absolute wire out of pocket.
Has three Pokemon left, two Pokemon left now,
as they are both very low health.
Licky Licky comes in, hits the Shadowbolt at the sector.
He's making sure that he's clicking all the bubbles
Potomac waving to see could this not be enough potentially?
Pocket takes off his head and he realizes he's won this game.
He's going on to losers round three.
Buzzer beaters, shadow ball on charge attack priority tie.
Out of pocket, the finalist slayer takes down Potomac.
Out of pocket playing out of his mind in this tournament,
each matchup that he has played,
he's recognized his win conditions,
Recognizing could be that course light there in the back if battle man used it game one as a safe swap and I was not there to punish it
I'm gonna make sure that I'm doing that for game number two. I'm telling you he made the call out
He could see it mid game the vision was right there
He had imagined himself facing off against that glaring course
So that licky-licky bearing down and pot the man fought as hard as possible
He scratched and clawed to try to get himself back into that game
I mean, honestly, one fast stack different,
and that Licky-Licky would not have been able to reach that
cap tie and win it against Glaring Corse.
It was still very close.
Those were incredibly close matchups indeed,
and Pautamen has had truly one of the best seasons,
I think, of any Pokemon Go player.
I think all the trainers across the globe recognize
that name, fear that name, when they see that they could
potentially be up against them.
Winning the European international championships
back to back top cutting multiple international championships.
The pocket says I can do it too.
Well, just not top cutting, right?
Let's make sure to give Potsman his flowers
because this season did just officially come to an end.
But he spent an entire revolution around the sun
being top four at every IC he attended,
including last year's World Championships.
There's simply no one like Potsman in the world
and out of pocket proved that he's got everything it takes
to hang with the best.
I love these plays by out of pocket.
You know, talking a little bit earlier on, he was twisted.
His chair was twisting just like those rollouts,
just like the Tondoza.
And then he sat up straight when he saw that that course
of the was coming in, recognizing, I think I can win this.
If I play correctly, this game could be mine,
even though Pato Mendoza did everything he could.
He got that licky, licky low.
He got that shadow ball caught onto his fortress.
It just wasn't enough as Pato was
able to take this game with one rollout and a shadow ball.
Hanging on to that astonish too was absolutely diabolical
for that beefy, licky, licky, held in there for its trainer.
And everyone knows what it means when a gamer sits forward
in their seat.
That means they are locked in.
And Pocket was exactly that.
Now, out of Pocket is a trainer that we
known for quite a long time is very, very good.
We haven't seen him play so much on stream.
We've got to see him play this matchup.
But we also want to hear from the man himself.
I'm here with Aiden out of pocket, who has just taken down the best player arguably in
the tournament.
Perhaps not so more.
How are you feeling?
I feel really good.
When I saw that I was set to play the loser of Harry and Leo, I was really excited because
no matter what I was going to play someone that I knew I've known for a long time.
I was not as excited to play against Harry just because I feel like that the mirror matchup
would be a little bit unfun.
They would just be kind of like trying to cheese each other
every game.
But against Pato, I felt like the matchup was pretty good.
I felt like I had a few good playbooks,
few good plays to go off of.
And Harry was really helpful for giving me
some tips and tricks.
But the wiki idea was like super frowned on by him.
But I just knew like, man, this guy
keeps on stationing his force on getting away with it.
I was like, I need to stop this right now.
And I was just so excited.
I saw this opportunity to just play as a good friend,
give my give back from LAIC.
Now, you're obviously against a great player.
You're a great player yourself.
What's it like?
Do you go into that match a little bit nervous,
or do you relish these kinds of matches?
I mean, it's hard not to go in nervous.
I go in nervous in my first round of a regional.
I definitely was a little bit more nervous about facing Leo.
I know how good he is.
I mean, it's undeniably probably top three, top two
in the world, maybe even one.
But I really care more about the matchup sometimes.
I'm like, you know, I try to underestimate my opponents,
so if I'm like, oh man, this match is difficult.
It doesn't matter if that's Pato or someone
that first term had crossed the screen for me, right?
So that's kind of how I see it.
Now, Harry had obviously played against Pato already,
and as you said, you're running the same teams
your team built together.
What was it like preparing for this match against Pato?
Man knowing Harry had already played against him and won.
So after I won my match up against Martyn,
and I saw that I was assigned for stream,
I knew that because of how long the queue was that I could just leave and have some time
for myself and with my friends and we got some pizza together and he kind of just gave
me the rundown of like his prep with our friends.
I was kind of just trying to ignore it last night even though I knew I could be facing
Pato just because I wanted to focus on my first matchup the one I knew I was going to
be playing and just that like small rundown seeing like kind of getting explained to what
he was doing what lines he was playing was more than enough for me.
I know you've got lots of people that support you, but also friends that you do perform well with and you do practice with any shoutouts
Absolutely. I love the shout out
Steiner I love the shout out Max Valenjaco people that I talked to and screen with like almost daily leading to this tournament
Especially near the final days the people I'm staying with Jai
Harry Eric
John and also Tom who flew all the way here. He just as spectator and hang out with us
Really really appreciate it you guys. Thank you guys so much
Now, Adam, I'm going to ask you one more question.
What is the chance that you win the World Championships this weekend?
100%!
Thanks very much, Adam Pocket.
Good luck with the rest of this weekend.
Now, we have so much more action still to come.
Check out this teaser to work the appetite.
If you leave the door cracked open, Elite is going to kick it wide open.
My name is Elite and I'm from Napa, California.
If I was a Pokemon Time Machine, I'd be a fire type.
I like the spirit of a fire type.
I started with GBL, like a battle league.
I was playing it like the max piles I could every day.
And then eventually it evolved into like show six formats,
like grass-free tournaments.
And I was getting better and better,
and then I was eventually getting on the leaderboards.
And then Pokemon Go came to the competitive circuit.
I will never forget it.
The first time I went to a tournament,
there were so many people that I knew online,
but I never met them before.
I think something I learned about myself,
I learned to become like more humble,
because when I used to like lose at anything,
I would let it like control me.
So I've learned over time to like handle it and accept either defeat or victory.
My strategy for San Antonio was a little bit funny.
It hit midnight, the Saturday of the actual tournament, and there was a rocket balloon.
It was with Cliff and he had the shadow of Kanto Meruak.
So I caught it.
I instantly powered it up.
I did a second move and like came up with a team for it during the night.
There was both a Pokemon and a player that I was concerned about, and this player had
that Pokemon.
That player was out of pocket, and he had the glaring course a lot.
I was going through the losers bracket the whole day.
I've done it before, but I start in the losers bracket and then win.
I felt like confident enough.
In Baltimore, my opponent was Bedouge, who's an incredible battler.
I was one game away from winning the first set of the grand finals, and then the second
set of grand finals as well, so just getting back close.
I felt like my mindset was very similar to San Antonio when I played Ryze.
I had a little bit more confidence in myself this time.
I had a bit more of a drive, like, really want to win.
I was just overthinking, like, the whole match,
like, every single possible thing that could happen
when I saw Ryze on the other side,
like, just put down his headset.
Already, the emotion started to come through.
Elite, your 20-25 San Antonio Regional Champion!
I feel incredible.
I did not think I was gonna win.
Winning San Antonio qualified me for a world championship.
The world is right by where I live,
so I'm very excited for it.
I think winning Worlds would honestly be, like,
be like a accumulation of all the work that I put into Pokemon and also outside of Pokemon.
Everything just like coming together like into winning the world championship.
No matter how many achievements you have, anyone should be considered like a threat.
And I feel like I'm one of those threats as well.
It's Accent says I'm back here in Portland.
My name is Peyton Bingham and I'm from Logan, Utah.
I first got into competitive Pokemon back when there's the whole pandemic and thankfully
I saw that Played Pokemon was adding Pokemon Go to the circuit and I thought you know I
might as well go somewhere I've been locked in doors so long might as well give something
to try and because of that I was able to put myself out there go to the Indianapolis Regional
Championship it was the first ever one in North America for Pokemon Go and then I ended
up going to NAIC that same year because of how much fun it was the first time and I ended
up winning the North American International Championship in 2022.
earlier in this season when I was kind of in the low when I just went off to
EUIC and went one and two traveling all the way across the seas just to come up
really short that was definitely low for me in this season but I had really good
friends around me people like dunebug my family as well that were able to
they're just convinced me to keep on going and fortunately finally at the
very end at the last second of this season here I was able to win the final
regional I think that all the prep that I put in to this regional and making sure
that you know I didn't take anything for granted every single match you play one
time ever since I won the world championship I've wanted to win something else and I finally was able to do it.
It's Aksin! It's inevitable! Your champion returns to the stage here in Portland and wins it all!
The team that I ended up bringing here I think was one of the better medicals I've had recently.
I brought Tinkaton a new addition to the game, one of the best core breakers out there.
Diggersby as well, just such a bulky monster.
Lapras is hard to go wrong with that thing, Shadowjumpflip as well has been proven time and time again to be one of the best Pokémon in the game.
I think that the biggest pick that I brought though was Blastoise.
This pick is something that not a lot of people saw coming.
There are some matchups that I played.
People didn't have a single answer for it.
It was a Pokémon that really just stuck out to me when I was doing some playtesting.
And because it's ability to take charge was a little bit better than other Pokémon in the meta
and it's so spammy, it has great rock type coverage and normal type coverage,
it just felt like it was the right pick and it definitely was.
It's accent does it again and he does it in style, in fashion, with his shiny, best buddy, Blastoise.
When I won Worlds in 2023, it was something that wasn't even on my radar.
It was always a dream of mine, always a goal.
But being able to actually do it was just the dream come true.
If I could ever win another World Championship,
I don't even know what that would feel like.
At this point, it's uncharted territory for a Kroakmango
to have a two-time World Champion of any kind.
So being able to play this new round, I think that would be breathtaking.
Well, his accident will not have that opportunity,
but M.E. Vidal can be that trailblazer to be a two-time Pokemon Go Worlds champion.
We are back and we are going through the loser's side of the bracket.
I am 2-0 butters going by Caleb Pang.
And he's absolutely right.
It is absolutely uncharted territory to be a two-time World Champion,
but he was also the first time two-time international champion.
That was uncharted territory until he did it.
So anything is possible as you get further and further along.
We are now in the Losers bracket, we're excited to see this one.
And quite familiar faces, we got Pokimichu coming up, a previous world's qualified player that played in previous world championships.
And Caspian Pike coming up here, as you can see on the bracket.
We're at the Losers round number three, Caspian Pike, first season competing.
First ever tournament wasn't even in the count, it was in this calendar.
in this calendar, not even started season last calendar year, it was February of Seattle
and May came number two in his first ever appearance and then wins it all in Indianapolis in the
final regional of the North America circuits. Also fellow local mind, I know pretty well
actually and he's usually kicked my butt in all the local tournaments. Well technically
he is our reigning North America regional champion here coming into the world championships
and some North American trainers have dropped off here.
So can he hold on hope for North America?
And to do so, he'll have to be Poki Mitchie,
an outstanding trainer in himself.
And he has that shadow annihilate.
He has the Thiebel as well,
in pretty standard meta from Caspian Pike.
But one of those trainers that made that Don Dozo adjustment,
you've seen it from out of pocket.
You've seen it from so many trainers, Don Dozo,
Marto Galday holding on against the side lanes.
Don Dozo has been a force in the Bay Area.
And there's a number of players that have always talked about how strong Don Dozo is,
especially in the Go Battle League.
A few even use it in that Indianapolis regional, that Caster Pike 1.
But ever since this meta shift with Cancel Nitro's being so relevant,
it has become even more of a stable pick.
And dare I say, even a meta pick now, especially in this top 32.
Well, I believe it was either 8th or 9th in top usage here in day number two.
So if it's top 10, you got to kind of consider it meta for sure.
And we have these trainers just about locked in Caspian Pike versus
Pokemitchie.
This is losers round number three.
Both of their tournament dreams are on the line in this series.
If you get eliminated on that loser side, you are eliminated from the tournament.
Here is that shadow came to nine tails versus the shadow in the alley.
And no second life.
There's like you said, this is a counter-shadow nightly.
It charge the energy much slower than the low kick variants,
but you can see the fast back pressure is immense
as the Nineteenth has already down to about two-thirds of its HP
before getting the first weather ball off.
And the pacing is just so fast here.
Can you take this rage fist and hold on and either get a protect shield
or some energy off with that weather ball, deciding not to risk it
to use that protect shield on the racers.
You have another attack going for the weather ball here.
Even though energy ball will do a little bit more damage,
You can maybe pace to the triple weather ball.
Here comes the Protections from that Shadow Annihilate.
Poke Mitchie is without Protections
already early in this battle.
I love the play though for Poke Mitchie
as you go for the two shield counter down.
Casting the fight, not going to give him that opportunity.
Force now to come to the surface
because he doesn't have the mancee in the back
so everything's going to take a lot of damage
from this Annihilate.
Poke Mitchie going to pivot that out
and now comes the Poke Glaring Force.
A Pokemon that we've seen on Soul Maintenance
due to its flexibility
As long as he's not matched up against Licky, Licky.
Caspian probably trying to optimize his energy, getting near 100 energy,
which is the maximum amount a Pokemon can hold in Pokemon Go PvP.
You will see those charge attacks exert, bubbled up, lighting up,
knowing that you are at that energy cap, but he is at this back-to-back mudbomb here.
He's probably not going to throw the second one straight away in no swapping action
into the Dondozo to try to maybe catch an attack.
He's not feeling happy about it, but Dondozo is happy,
taking pretty much any charge attack.
Yeah, I mean, I guess at the end of the day, too,
he's going to get hit by Nightjake regardless, right?
Maybe expecting Hogan Misci to go for a Simon Swap or something.
I'm not really sure.
You know, you can talk about expression.
He wasn't happy with this particular matchup.
But Dondo's are going to take a lot of this damage away.
Now that Shilpa down on all sides,
but this gives the opening for Dondo so to get to the surf
before the discharge, he's going to do some decent,
super effective damage.
It's something we rarely see, a super effective surf
from a Dondo's, though, doesn't have the highest attacks
that butt does a dent into that you know the stun fist here you're gonna be
after double discharge right before the surf is available there's no protect
shields remaining on the battlefield and now you have that energy banked not
only on this stun fist but that course law has energy as well and the
annihilate is pretty healthy here comes castment pipe did not grow a charge
check so now he has to take this month off he wants to bank on a chance you
maybe want didn't want to miss a charge at priority but this is going to do some
super heavy damage however there's no world where you get done to shock down
Wait hold on I feel like you go to over front be a little bit more. You go to that's why he's shaking his head
Yeah, like you can't really dump truck this down. That's you know triple resisted damage
Especially with something that's so much HP and now babies right over to the night
He's gonna get the wet balls. I just not get there goes on the final counter of the shadow annihilate a few more counters
We'll do it as polka bitchy closes out with the same league polka bitchy double protects you to that shadow annihilate
and he was able to close with it in the back.
Just with that fast attack pressure,
counter is worse than it used to be
because you generate less energy,
but it still does a decent amount of damage,
especially in the hands of a Shadow Pokemon.
Shadow Pokemon in Pokemon GO PV
do 20% more damage, but also take 20% more damage.
So it is risky, but when you can line it up
with a Pokemon like Annihilate, it can really pop off.
That's right. And that's the thing, right?
Counter was there, I believe it was
almost two years ago now, September of 2024,
but with the racer's guaranteeing the buff every time you use it,
it makes Pokemon, especially a Shadow of Nileith,
particularly for Poland,
even though it's facing it's much slower than it used to be.
And the problem for Casin of Pipe is,
he doesn't only have an answer to the Shadow of Nileith,
except for the Mantine.
Does he dare bring the Mantine though,
because you know something's on Pokemon issue side,
very strong into it,
and you can see Pokemon issue not scared of bringing it,
because why wouldn't you bring it?
There's no real answer to, you know,
something's on the side of Castering Fighting because that you're going to see it every time
and just risking the mancy to be in that terrible matchup is so disastrous for Castering Fighting.
This is exactly why I put Shadow Annihilate on my Caster Predictions because if you have a team
composition that is missing that Ghost type like the Glaring Corsula or you only have
Nancy as your number one answer, a Shadow Annihilate can really go off. So does that force you to run
that man team to have something against that Annihilate because you know you are probably seeing
And as we saw in game number one,
Pokemichie is just happy to invest in it.
They are locked in to game number two.
We got Casper and Pike versus Pokemichie.
And it's going to be that Shadow Canto,
Ninetales lead once again,
but it's facing that Kalarian Corsula.
And Casper and Pike, he's so scared to shout
and either doesn't even bring the licky licky,
making this Kalarian Corsula absolutely free
for Pokemichie.
Just has such a good team composition interest.
Doesn't even bring the Shadow Ninetale,
but yes, so much flexibility, it doesn't even matter.
and we're going to see how powerful Shadow of Kanto Nights fails can be with its pacing,
but it just doesn't do enough damage and it will take super effective damage,
so trying to swap on a Power Gym maybe instead getting a waterfall through, but taking that Night Shade.
And again, Casting Bike, using this Dandoza as a damage sponge.
Pokemon issue doesn't have a great answer to the Dandoza, which is a big reason why it's so safe.
It's definitely the Pokemon issue scene, right? Unless you have the Manti, it's not really good for any of its Pokemon.
So it's going to stay again, throw some more chip damage.
He has plenty of reason, answers to that cancel nine kill.
So might just stay in here all the way
and force the energy run down to us.
So almost a double serve, and finally got a throw,
but hopefully he's going to charge that card.
Will he shield the force, shield off of Casper and Pyke?
No, we're going to let it go.
You saw that in game number one,
he didn't over form on his stun fist, right?
This time he over form through on charge attack card
to ensure that he has this serve to throw
into the opposing stun fist here.
So an adjustment from Casper and Pyke,
no protect shield, the super effective damage
is gonna land, the Stumpfist takes about half of its health,
hit it in the night tail, doesn't go for a combo play,
there's four protect shields remaining, do we see a bait?
No, he is sending it, he is going straight for the energy ball.
Poke Mitchie might think it's a weather ball,
doesn't he just let it go, no last second protects you.
A huge show of Poke Mitchie,
I'm not surprised he even led that in the serve though,
but maybe you're saving it for the super effective edge ball.
The fence is dropped, there'll be closing in
on what the ball range is still not enough.
The tasking fight is also one,
awaiting the next edge ball, goes for it,
but here comes the evil to clear the debuff
and also do some pretty decent damage with the sucker punches.
But it's going to have to take two weather balls or a weather
ball and an energy ball on its way out.
Do you have your timer available?
No, you are still locked in here.
So yes, actually the back to back weather ball.
But this does mean your timer is back available.
You can hold onto the Shadowcanto Ninetales
if Caskin and Pike wants to pivot out of there.
There comes a pivot into the stompness,
but it's going to get dampened by this IC win that's
going to be super effective.
So you get the last protect shield of the game.
Caskin and Pike, predicting the super effective IC win,
would make sense too because it's not only super effective and also goes to
debuff but I don't know if this debuff is that relevant for Pokedmitchy because
casted pipe he can still take out the opposing stuff it's even debuff there's
just way too much health remaining but it might allow to get to a 9th
slash or say swaps out things that more later tries to draw the engine away from
the stomp is however again Pokedmitchy needs at least two maybe even three
mubbumps to take out the opposing stomp is and there are five Pokemon remaining
on the battlefield, but three of them have almost zero health.
And now four of them as well, as this mudbomb did go through.
The opposing mudbomb from Pokeimitch,
he's going to be super effective, but he's
going to need another one.
Here comes the Dondonzo trying to waterfall down.
Like, does he give him the smart advantage?
No, the Thundershock does not go through.
You're not going to have the opportunity.
Oh, actually does fake that, but there's two Pokemon remaining.
So here comes the Ninetales to take the ninth slash.
Yeah, really great play from Casting Pike,
knowing that Pokemitch has to throw a move no matter what,
to keep this evil around, but the problem is you are not in one second one
strange. One hundred job for you as tasking it like evens up this series.
It is tied up here with both of these trainers. Their tournament is on the line.
We are double elimination in Pokemon go. There is one loss on the board for
higher these trainers, but whoever does succeed in this next game will be moving
on and how about Pokemon machine Pokemon machine in the game number two does
that shadow annihilate but keeps sorry excuse me casket pike keeps all of his
Pokemon around a really low health almost give them the opportunity when he
swapped him with that don dozo if he did get that thundershock down maybe he
would have got those two protectors in the back but evil I think you mentioned
it where the icy wind just doesn't really do that much in the endgame there I
think evil wasn't really carrying its weight there at the very end definitely
not and I think you know the shout neither played more fables are both
mentioned I want to be surprised to try to bring it back again because again
And then, Gassinbite, he's so scared to bring that man to him because of how bad that matchup is for the Stumpfist.
And it's just such a gamble for him if he doesn't get it onto Nilek.
And you saw on game number two, Pogimichou might not even bring the Nilek.
So, it's such a gamble and Gassinbite just trying to play as mutually as possible in this matchup.
I think Pogimichou has so much more flexibility with this team composition.
And he could go again for that two-shield shadow Nilek matchup.
And, you know, try to counter-down, throw Rage Viss and stuff to grab the shield back from Gassinbite.
Casting Pikes back against the wall, found a way to find that win and again this is in the loser's bracket.
Loser will be eliminated from the tournament and end their world championship run.
Winner continues their dream to get to that grand finals for day number three.
Well Kayla what does Mantine not want to see from Casting Pikes site?
He doesn't want to see that Stunfist and he also doesn't want to see Corsola.
Because Corsola is a pretty devastating matchup too because it is so bulky and has that super effective power gym.
What has Pokimichu been showing?
He's been showing Stunfist and Corsla.
I would actually expect him to come back with that Shadow Annihilate
in this decisive game number three,
because he is effectively scaring off that man team.
But, Caspian Pike, although this is his first time
in Championship Series this calendar year,
he is extremely talented.
He is a regional champion.
He might be thinking that as well,
that the opposing trainer is gonna try to rely
on that Shadow Annihilate.
So, I'm gonna bring that man team.
We're going to find out right now as we have our leads.
We have the Shadow Canto Ninjails versus Unova Stuntfist in the back.
There is a Shadow Ninelight, but there is no Mantine on Gathgen Fight's side.
Yeah, there's respect for the Shadow Ninelight, but more importantly,
probably too much respect for the Unova Stuntfist.
I like this play a lot for Pokimish.
If he knows Shields is, he can just two-shield the Shadow Ninelight.
Does he throw the Shield?
Oh, and he actually is going to throw the Shield.
Instead, now, gets the Mud Bomb off.
Probably gets a Shield back from Gathgen Fight.
Alan one shield a piece the shadow Nile it is much more susceptible being taken down when it's only at one shield
Incumb to shadow Nile it but now
You only have one shield to hide behind and if you can get the second shield here
Then maybe you actually just come in with Dondo so because you can take double rage this and still get to the surf
I think you're gonna see a pivot into Dondo so here or actually catch the pike
It's just gonna stay in here try to absorb this energy maybe let this out of kids
No, he's actually doubling down.
He's trying to get to that energy ball
or that weather ball to do some choke damage.
But the thing is, it doesn't have the reach.
It's not gonna be enough to knock out this Annihilator.
And Pokemon, she didn't throw the racers right away,
so might be missing a little bit of damage
as the counters were not boosted until just now.
And the ball doesn't take out the Annihilator,
but we get to the vent drop,
and that might be just enough to avoid
getting hit by the boosted Rage Fist.
Shields are down, waterfall,
One energy, one ball advantage is there.
Pokimitch, you might go for the discharge
and just swap over to the core stuff.
Try to go for the catch.
Casted bike doesn't call for it.
Now has a lot of energy, but you know,
something's also has quite a bit.
The casting bike starts full health.
You know, something's coming back.
Oh wait, go to the outrage, he said it, sir.
Outrage is a strong attack,
even though it's not the same type of attack bonus.
Maybe double outrage will do it at this health
and double surf won't do it.
I actually like what Pokimitch did there,
just like we saw with the shadow polytoder,
You can bank a bunch of energy on Dondozo and use that for the back line.
Here comes the nightshade. It's not nearly enough to knock out on Dondozo.
There is a switch available for Caspian Pipe.
He is at the charge attack, throwing on charge attack priority once again, but he has a surf bank.
Now, do we see a blind swap?
Because we know the Sunfist will win charge attack priority into the Dondozo,
but he can swap out of it, and they know he actually just throws the surf,
and there was no charge attack registered for Bokeh Michi, so he's going to take the super effective damage.
This is huge and this should be just the game as it was started, but you know,
stuff is it's pretty bulky as well and typically structure party in a lot of
situations. Absolutely brutal.
But Pokenichi, it's a cast if I keep it shocked at it was charged.
I'm already that's just I laugh as you can see.
Well, help you know, something is not going to even matter in this matchup.
That's Pokenichi acknowledge the bonus shows the sign of respect as well as
dancing bite continues his dreams in this world championship.
What a season from Kazumkin Kite in his debut year for Championship Series,
only having his first ever tournament just about five months ago.
Now, he has advanced on this losers' round number four,
just after coming off winning the last North American regional.
That is an insane ascension from a trainer.
Absolutely wild. And again, one of those players that barely even qualified for Worlds.
He went into Indianapolis knowing he couldn't go to NAIC and saying,
this is my last chance to qualify, I need to do pretty well this tournament
to guarantee my spot at World Championship 10.
He won it all, so we did get that guarantee spot,
and now he's made it further and further into that gate to bracket,
looking for even more as one of the few remaining representatives of NA.
Well, my takeaway is, ladies and gentlemen, we're learning a lot about Dondozo.
I did not think that Dondozo would win a charge attack priority
because it has so much to that product.
And when you have so much staff product, that means that your attack is usually lower.
But you know with Stumpfist also has great staff product.
I thought maybe it was going to try to go for a blind swap.
But no, Tondozo wins the charge attack priority.
It wins the battle versus CyWidth.
What can it not do?
Yeah, it's quite the both form for sure.
And definitely one that everyone should start building for in Detroit.
As you know, there's still a few days left in this go battle league season if you want to use it.
But big aggressive passing pipe and a great run from Pokemon Michi who,
I don't believe called by the World Championships last year or maybe Hongyu, I forgot which of the years,
but they make the World Qualification of past worlds, and it's great to see him back on the stage.
Still made a very deep run into day number two better than most of the trainers here in the tournament.
Look forward to seeing him in the future worlds too.
Yeah, the region of Japan has been doing awesome here in day number two.
Of course, we have a winner's finalist from Japan, even though Hoki Michi was eliminated.
The trainer that eliminated him, let's hear from him. Take it away Tomahawk.
I am joined by Caspian Pike with a brilliant victory over there.
How are you feeling?
I was so happy to make day two, even to win a match.
I came in thinking I know anybody in the world can go out too.
To make it this far is the dream come true.
It was a great performance. You were playing your first season of Pokemon Go in the championship series.
You actually got gold very recently in Indianapolis. What kind of expectations did that give you coming to the world championships?
Yeah, six months ago. I drove two and a half hours to my first ever local tournament
So Seattle wasn't me my first in person tournament and to be here now
I had no expectations in Indianapolis. I was just trying to qualify for worlds coming here with the gift
So I really didn't want to get my ups up
I mean you've been playing brilliantly. Now if we took it look at your team and the teams that you've been running this season
Obviously we've we've got a small data sample, but I've noticed you really like your double water pairing
Is that something that you consciously go for when you're building teams?
I think water types are just so good that often the good minds like there's been multiple of them
Yeah, I really thought I was cooking something special with Dandoja, but everyone else got no too, but I really enjoy Dandoja
So, yeah, I really wanted to answer Tink.
I think Tink's really hard to bring into me.
I don't even care about saying that,
because it's just really bad into me.
So it's like,
I think that's very fair.
And you've also got your Unobunstun Fist,
your Shadow Fortress, and your Licky Licky,
that I think you've been popularizing as well
over the last few months.
Are they Pokemon that you've just really got
a lot of comfort with now?
Yeah, I think, I tried to drop Licky Licky,
I just couldn't do it.
And I had to go for the Tribble Fish, you know,
Caspian Pike.
I run fish sometimes on stream.
I had to do a triple fist.
Amazing, now you've got lots of fans in the audience.
Is there anyone you'd like to shout out?
Oh, so many.
Big shout out to my family who's watching.
My brother knows nothing about Pokemon,
but he came here to support me.
My girlfriend, it was her birthday on Wednesday
and she still came up and all my relatives watching at home.
My faction, the Brave Nerds, especially Kurt Goldsilver,
has been giving great magic advice
and really massive shout out to Moe Teeks.
He's been like my rock throughout this entire journey.
He talked me out of running King Gambit multiple times.
So he's really the reason I'm here.
He was scrimming me for two hours this morning.
Love that guy.
Thank you so much.
I love to hear that.
And you're a great inspiration for all of our newer players
into the championship series as well.
Castus, bring us back to the action.
Thank you, Tom Holland, for that fantastic interview.
And to add on to the story of Casting Pikes,
he said six months ago, six and a half months ago,
he went to his first local, and then he went to Seattle.
And funny enough, I live in the same area as him.
I didn't go to that local.
So when I saw his run in Seattle, no seating at all.
First ever tournament, I was like, who is this guy?
I was gonna say my friend, Drake,
but also a local of SoCal.
And he's like, oh, dude, this casting,
my guy, he was like killing it in this past local.
You just didn't go.
You don't even know who he is,
but he's actually really good.
And sure enough, six months later,
he quite, he definitely is quite good at this game.
Awesome to see he has such a huge supportive network here,
both in person and I'm sure at home too.
Well, the thing is, if you are thinking about taking that plunge
in the competitive Pokemon Go PDP, if you start now,
you'll actually have a head start
on the next year's World Championships,
then even Caspian Pike did on this year's World Championships.
And what a great way to get the Tinketon from Beezalboy
from last year's World Championships.
Of course, at a lead charge,
TM, you're one third on your way to a really strong team.
All you gotta do is participate in the Twitch drops
in Caspian Pike, the Fisherman trainer,
just scoring big here in the Bay Area.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, he was ready for the team at the time.
That's how potent it is in this meta.
So definitely get your push-ups if you can.
And also, another great reason to go out
to your local tournaments.
Great way to practice in the actual meta
and get points to get your qualifications
for a world championship.
Speaking of world championships,
we got another match on our hands.
Let's get into it.
Sussins Eater versus King OWT.
Sussins Eater on an absolute generational run for him.
A breakout season.
He's looking for more, but he's going to be going
against King OWT, and it's going to be a top one
to see who comes out on top again.
We're on the loser's side, so winner of this
will be moving on, loser will be ending the journey soon.
Well, if you didn't see his performance earlier on,
he was able to take down Potomac,
who has unfortunately been eliminated
from the World Championships,
which is a shocker to everyone,
but Susnit's eater, a trainer that has got it seventh place,
two times ninth place, a couple of times as well,
really did have an awesome season in terms of getting it to day number two.
But then that is where he faltered a little bit.
So now he's on that loser side of the bracket.
Can he keep continuing his journey of growth and move on to defeat another
European trainer in King.
Which has a really unique take on the meta, of course, has a Hisunion
Electro has the Fero has that shadow King draw a very different team that
the game number one.
Susie's either was facing
earlier on.
Definitely and a lot of the
Pokemon on King.
Oh, WT teams team are kind of
glass cannons, right?
The history lecture.
It's really hard to allow
charge.
Fero very high attack that
charges the most very fast
and 10 turns for the drill
pack and the drill run and
then shadow King draw the
speed.
The attack damage is pretty
immense and also a great
check to that.
So let's go.
Game number one.
Susie here in the King.
Oh, WT is going to be
licky, licky and the Fero, a
bad matchup for Fero, but
not the worst.
I think it's going to be
4-0 but not the worst as 2-3 like World Threater KO.
And if you properly protect shield on a shadow ball here,
this Kingdra matchup with the surf could be really strong.
That's not a surf.
That is a swift that's going to be landing in the substance
eater.
So now suddenly, and it's also going to be,
and no, there it is.
That's a hole.
And it's a no shield on that shadow ball into the shadow
Kingdra.
So now comfortably, this Licky Licky can get to another
charge attack or pivot out into that course.
So I like this play.
Just come in, soak the energy, and fast attack down.
I love this suit because the force of King Ogre T to go to the surface does get through it though
And it's not like a better move throw is going through a one so ends up working out for him
But Joanne Corsa one of them want to contain quite a bit however
This allows King Ogre T to farm down with the fear but instead comes in with the
As soon as like sure which is kind of curious to me right that fear like the fear would have been much better in the situation
We're double resisting the sauna sandwich. Yeah, you would have to protect shield so that is one small factor there
Maybe now he switches though. He just stays in he wants to get this course a lot out of here
But look at the trunk that it did into this electrode. It's us as either thinking about is he just really weak to that in the back
No, he actually knows because that fear was in the lead the fero is in the back
He's saved to protect us for it
But there is that Malmour coming in counter swap and now you're down energy, but just slightly yeah
And this Malmour is gonna reach that pathway before
The drill pack is reached. What's that?
I believe his switch timer is up so he can just swap straight to licky licky if you'd like to and yes
That's exactly what he does, but it soak up this damage and gets a roll out through absolutely huge for substance eater
King of WT is shaking his head because that's not what he wants to see
He doesn't want to let that full roll out through that is a three-turn fast attack that just gives all that energy to that
Licky looking to get up to these body slams and he could have avoided that
But he threw at the improper timing the rollout does come through and it could be punishing his last protect shield of the battle is down
Now the timer is ticking closer and closer after this drill peck. He will have his timer available
Maybe he can make a crucial swap into his electrode, but his electrodes really low
That's us to see there wants to get the spice him off
But the catch is available and here comes the optimized catch from King
Oh, WT gets the thunder shot through as well
Can he get to an engine ball to close out this matchup against the licky licky, but that's here
He's not giving the chance. He's going for the side way down a siren sound the electrode before gets to the move
Only a few more silence to get the foul play.
It's on Georgia at Bright Orly.
Licky, Licky can't try to go for the roll down before the next.
Drop X has reached can King OWT Spiro hang on to get one foul drill.
Like no, it's actually not even up to get the Malomar.
I completely forgot.
That's why Susie Cedar was shaking his hand.
It's not the shadow Malomar, it's just the normal.
He can take that drill back and he can take the battle.
I gotta ask you, butters.
You were a Malomar hater this morning.
You're kind of a Malomar believer in the afternoon.
What about right now?
You know, I'm not a hater.
I'm just saying Malomar wasn't doing much earlier on.
There we saw some success with it.
And the reason we saw success with it
is because he was able to swap it in early
and then swap it out, making some awesome catches
and getting ahead on energy.
That is the way that you want to use that Malomar
in this meta to pull it off.
So right there, Malomar looked pretty good.
So what you're telling me is, it's the driver, not the car.
You know, it can be.
It has, this car is pretty good, but the thing is,
there's also about 25 other cars that are really good
in the Open Great League meta
in the Pokemon Go World Championships right now,
but it just so happens to be that Malamore
was one of the last second additions
to a lot of these trainers that made it to day number two.
That's why it was doing so well in the top usage.
It hasn't found its footing yet,
but if you're gonna find your footing,
no better time than the end of day number two.
What I'm hearing is there's 25 asterisks
to your assessment of Malabar,
but a greatly performed game from Sousa N'Yir
just staying in control of the matchup
all the way throughout, getting extra energy to sneak through.
And here we go, match point versus Sousa N'Yir.
Can King OWT find a way to force a game down
and get a history of Licky and Licky
into the more failed Shadow Kingdra.
And the Shadow Kingdra can win this matchup
in the one protect shields situation.
Pretty dominantly, it's actually weird
because Licky and Licky is a really good neutral Pokemon
in that one protect shield situation,
but for some reason, Kingdra can pull it off.
Now, it's just gonna be going for that surf damage here.
That surf is gonna do a big chunk into this Licky and Licky.
And now once he takes the surf,
he will be in range of Swift.
So do we see that before the next charge attack?
Perfect plays from King OWT,
the maybe force a protect shield from Susana Theater.
If he shields this, there could be a catch
on the shadow ball, the shadow ball is ready.
Does King Odin-Z go for it or not?
Goes for the Shadow Ball, but King Odin-Z doesn't squab for it.
And now Shadow Ball is going to do a cycle amount damage into the Tintra.
Won't be able to get it, but it'll be close.
Here comes the Swap of Sustenator, trying to go up and side with down.
But, King Odin-Z gets exactly what he wants.
Tinkets on into the Malibar.
Tinkets on Hammer will do quite a bit of damage to Sustenator,
building up to double, uh, two-route.
It goes on charge, I probably guess pretty big.
That's bad, because Sustenator has the back-to-back.
But, as Tinkets on Hammer's gonna knock out,
so you won't get the back-to-back off unless you use your last protect shield of the battle.
Susie's Theater is thinking about it. Do I really need this superpower energy?
I don't think it's really going anywhere at this point, so just let the Malamark go.
Try to come in with the fortress, but fortress is also going to struggle to be able to knock out this thinkaton.
A fantastic line-up from Team LWT, because he also has the Bureau in the back,
and if Susie here shields this, he's going to shield us against the Fero,
but maybe predicts that that might be the case.
Saves it for later. Could be, oh he's doing electro. Could be the feral. Indeed it is the feral.
I just gonna try to build up and throws the Sandtune right before the bulldoze's reach.
He smells the wing condition here. Two dropex will do, or maybe even the pet damage might just be enough.
Susten there still has a catch opportunity here. Couple of feral. Does he go for the bait? I think he has go for the Roger just to reduce the damage.
Does he have time? He does go for the Sandtune, but I think the pet damage is a little bit too much.
He's thinking about it. He's thinking, no, he actually does protect your last second.
What have he called that stand to that would be double not very effective.
But the thing is, he's thinking about how much energy they've had.
Like he didn't even matter because he was able to just wing attack down.
And now he has two charge attacks for sustenance either shadow forces.
And we got a tie series.
King also achieved finds a way to force his game three.
That series is not over for him.
And his tournament run is not over as well.
completely flushing the script on that one. A great line read from him. Bring that Tinketon in
the right situation. I like this line a lot more because I think the last one, there's what,
Kingdra, Fero, this is an electrode. There's no bulk anywhere, right? And you only have two shields.
If you spend it on a frame bulk, mind your other frame bulk on back, don't have near
less much play. Bring in the bulk here. Tinketon with superior typing into that Malmour gives
him a fighting chance. Also, if you don't bring the Tinketon to Malmour, just completely unchecked.
Yeah, and that's the thing that he adjusted to, right?
That Malomar was bouncing around the battlefield in that game number one.
So he brought that Tinketon to check that Malomar.
And as soon as it came in the battlefield, he had the Tinketon and he wasted a lot of energy from that Malomar
and kept healthy enough that he was able to do so much damage to the remaining Pokemon from Susten its eater.
So it's actually pretty hard to bring that Malomar in the middle matchup
if you are expecting a Tinketon to be in the back.
But with King OWT's team, he has so much flexibility.
It's really hard to predict exactly what he's going to be bringing into the matchup.
And gold players, they're getting ready for one final battle in this series.
The biggest matchup, arguably, emboldens their careers.
And you don't know how hard it is to not only get to the world safe, but
to make it this far into the tournament.
It might be forever before they get to the same spot.
They're trying to make the most of it.
Here we go, game number 30, Sustans Eater vs. King OWG and a beautiful lead from OWG.
That is not what Sustans Eater wants to see and he's actually gonna stay in this.
Maybe he's gonna go for the superpower and then swap out.
But what does he swap out into?
Does he go into the course left?
Neither one of those Pokemon in the back really want to take the Gigaton hammer.
Is he gonna try to call a big bulldoze bait?
He is thinking about it, but no, last second he is holding onto that protect shield and he implements it.
A big shield for Sustans Eater, but the problem is how do you chip down the fingertips
to make in a range where the rest of the team can handle it.
Corsair, that isn't even the best match for Team Utah,
and the Lick-a-Lick loses that one as well.
King Ogilty actually shields the super power,
but this allows Celsen here to throw another one
and maybe even swap out.
Goes for another one.
This will be some cruiser chip damage.
Celsen here might just let this go,
but also might just go straight into the Licky-Licky.
Well, that backline matchup up there in Corsair
into maybe the Fero could be good for the Fero,
but if protect shields are downed,
you can land that super effective power gem
to do pretty well in that zero protect shield matchup.
Here comes the Gigaton Hammer, it just has so much neutral damage, and it comes the Kingdra.
Now the Kingdra is pretty much putting this Licky Licky and Swift Rage.
There is so much over farming going on.
Susten is either thinking, I can't waste all of that energy, he has to use the Protect Shield.
Yeah, very interesting over farm by, I mean both trainers really, but really Susten's either because he's not going to win charge attack already.
Goes for the Mycim, but I love this column Kingdra.
He got the final shield. He's in a commanding position now here comes the second buy-safe.
This is also still good for a substance eater because one shadow wouldn't have been enough.
It can't really roll out down before the next sweep comes through.
So now gets almost a gain of it. Even then it's not enough, but the astonishment was huge.
However, there is the arrow in the back and it's going to double resist all this ghost fast stack pressure from the porcelain.
King OWT and his trusty Fero has an opportunity to full sweep the three Pokemon on Sustenance Eater's side.
All he has to do is land double Drill Peck into this course look, but somehow have enough energy for the third Drill Peck into the Malamore.
This is a bait on a double resistant Nightshade, but it doesn't matter because it's close in energy.
Also, Sustenance Eater is Switchlock. You just need to bank as much energy as possible before the Power Gym.
Perfect timing by King OWT.
Sussins here trapped in this position.
Cronauts while Valentine could not get the catch off.
The Malmarr is still around.
Is Malmarr the truth or is it just going to be the downfall
for Sussins here in this matchup?
There's still the Tinkertown in the back as well.
But you have a lot of energy.
King over the catch doesn't get it off.
And King OWT gets the Trelpec.
There's only Licky Licky in the back
but it doesn't have much health left.
And more importantly, it doesn't have much energy.
There's two.
And Sussins here bought Valoranty.
Had a such a great torment.
But King OWT will be the winner of the series and be moving forward.
It is was just right there is three for King OWT and his Firo able to full sweep that back line and
take it two to one to advance in this tournament keep his dreams alive.
Wow. What a series between the two of them there too.
And King OWT after a very tough first game found a way to find the win conditions there.
And what a performance of Suss's here as well, right?
He had such great tournament.
He also, you know, he beat so many top players,
Suss even being Potomac on that winner's side,
but it was just a little bit too much in the end there.
And, you know, a great team that he builds, a great run.
And like I said, the best season he's had,
for the best season he's had so far.
And I'm sure a lot of you are looking forward
to his performance in future seasons.
And it's a game of inches of milliseconds.
We saw that Suss's eater was reaching for that swap.
He just barely didn't get that off.
That would have effectively swapped on that drill pack.
And then he would have had the foul play.
And maybe he would have had a chance.
But this is how close the games can be, especially
in the end games.
And I'll just echo what you said.
What a run from this trainer that joined the championship
series last season.
But this season has definitely been his standout performance.
And what better way to stamp out your season
with a B this far in a day number two in the most stacked
Pokemon Go tournament ever.
Yeah, I believe he was in Cedar's first season, was last season.
He did make that world's qualification in his first run,
but maybe didn't have the best performance there,
still getting into the competitive scene.
But this year, he has just gone in multiple levels up in his game play.
But King OwT, he has something to say about that one,
and Afiro came to play in this final matchup.
And unfortunately, Justin Cedar just didn't have the time to swap out,
to make the catch, to make the fancy plays, to pull it off.
And he, Sustisator has been eliminated.
We said it before, this is on the loser's side of the bracket,
but that does mean King OWT is getting closer and closer to getting higher and
higher in that pricing.
And who knows, any one of these trainers on the loser's side of the bracket
could make a historic run to make it all the way to the losers finals and
then eventually make it to grand finals on Championship Sunday.
And more importantly, someone will be facing someone in that losers finals
you have a chance to make that
grand finals and a lot of our
players in this bracket are
going forward. I'm here just
here how King O WT feels about
that. What you can see how happy
was brief. Take it away. I'm
joined by King WT, also known
as Jack, who's just sealed his
place in the top eight in the
San Francisco World
Championships. Jack, how are you
feeling? I'm feeling absolutely
amazing. I think this is far
I'm not going to be able to
win. I'm not going to be able
to win in going into the day
and losing my first round in
winners, especially to games.
Maybe I could have won
unfortunate calls. Unlucky
deboss. But since then, I feel
I've got my momentum back three
games on the bounce taking
stop a feeling good from a
mentality perspective, you
obviously prepared last night
for today. You mentioned that
you lose that first match. What
does it take to really pull
things together and get the
the next one. And I think
it's a really good game. It's
really good game. It's a
combination of the two. It's
just it's one match. So if you
lose one, don't affect the
next one. And you someone that
looks at the name of your
opponent and you draw
conclusions from who you're
up against, or do you just
take everything as it comes? I
try to take everything as it
comes. Obviously there's some
names that you tend to be more
scared of. That's only doesn't
compete as much as other
people. I think about that
multiple like medials,
multiple wins, or maybe not
statistically up there with
them. But to be up here and
You're absolutely performing at that level now. You've not had a medal before but you are so so close to a trophy
What would that mean to you?
It would mean the world like a trophy for a medal. I
I don't think I would have ever believed it, but
That's a good take from one game at a time. We'll think about that just yet
Other is there anyone that you'd like to call out for their support in this journey?
Hey, first we'll show something my team of snowboard tappers
and the audience. Thanks
guys. Also my fellow British
friends Max and Aaron, you guys
are amazing. And all my friends
at home who maybe aren't even
into football as much, but they
always watch a stream still
support me. I appreciate you
guys so much. Amazing Jack.
Keep it up. Congratulations
again. You are top eight in the
world. That was King WT still
so many more matches still to
come. Castors back to you.
impossible happens and he is well on his journey. Jack or King Owt has an awesome chance to be in
that losers finals just needs to win a couple more matchups. We are sticking on that loser side
of the bracket. Up next we do have Caspian Pike who you just saw. He's back on stage facing Dunbug.
I believe these are the only two remaining and oh no there's pocket two out of pockets here
and then we have Caspian Pike for Dunbug and only one of them can continue moving forward
And that's this is kind of a crazy matchup there because you got to bug the most decorated
Most winning in terms of titles player in the circuit
I was I believe Ellen Diaz hard Jeff and then you got cast in fight first season started only six months ago
competing and going against a Titan in the
Circuits, but casting fight that's proven that he could do it before you could do it potentially again
Gondo though doesn't look nearly as good in this match of as Jellison is going to really put a burden in that head-to-head water matchup
You know he has done it before because I'm gonna show you where he left off in his regional championship to get to the finals
He'd be out of pocket and then be s James P
Who is one of the best trainers in all of North America and to finish it off?
He was able to defeat nighttime clasher
So he took out Titan after Titan after Titan so he can pick off where he dropped it off
And he can beat dune bug as well
He has that capability as you've seen it is the story of underdog so far at world
Some of our heavy hitters have been knocked out
But can dune bug be one of those last one standing like you said has the Jellison a really
Unusual pick in this meta and can cast me in fight the fisherman real that Pokemon in the
Like you said, the Dandozo doesn't want to see it,
but at least it does have that, you know,
the stun fist and that licky-licky,
because otherwise,
jealousy is really strong against his team.
And speaking of matchup,
that casting bike has fought, you know,
top place he fought against,
there's one play he hasn't fought against
in the NA circuit that's quite decreed.
It is the man sitting across from him right now,
and casting bike has reminded me,
this is his fourth ever tournament,
including this one, it's his fourth ever tournament.
Drew and Buck now has more than four tournament wins.
He's gone to more than four world championships.
So it's a real true David vs. Goliath situation.
Here we go, game number one, Dunebug vs. Casting Fyke.
It's going to be the floor just into the mansion
to kick things off.
Let's take a look at that backline.
We do see the Jellison in the back for Dunebug,
and it's going to be faced against that, you know,
in Sunfish or Licky Licky.
So actually, you don't have a lot of maneuverability
for that Jellison in the backline for Dunebug.
Are we going to see it swap into this frontline
as the disarming voice does come in?
Do you try to make a cheeky swap into a water pulse?
No, the water pulse is gonna be coming off
for Casting Pipe.
It could be a tricky timing situation,
but more importantly,
Dumbuk has to be afraid of the potential
licky-licky matchup in the back.
So, we're gonna protect this water pulse.
That actually puts Dumbuk in a pretty good situation
because now he shields a more engine-tensive move
and can outpace Casting Pipe
to the double-sarming voice.
And here comes the nice water pulse.
That's gonna do a decent amount of damage
into the floor just here.
There is one protect shield remaining, of course,
for Dumbuk.
to throw that chilling water into this Licky Licky does have the evil in the
back you really don't want to see this match up with the Jelton here comes that
evil gonna try to bank up as much energy as possible to maybe have some sort of
effect in the back line for Casper in pipe yeah I don't really love this play
from Casper in pipe because he's not only debuff he takes chip damage and now
Doomba can really dictate the switch advantage you can see but it's not
doing enough also gives Doomba a lot of opportunities to even boost on the nice
But he's not afraid of over farming.
He loves some extra energy here,
and he's building up to almost 100
before throwing the first Night Slash.
And the body slam goes through.
People have all the energy in the world,
and Night Slash will be just enough,
I believe, or maybe actually could be
just short into the bulkiness
of Licky Licky. It is just short.
Here comes the swap into the Manti
trying to soak up all this energy,
but he's going to bank up to the double Night Slash
to ensure that he gets a Night Slash,
an icy wind on that back line you know the Sunfish.
And Junebug County is impeccable here because now he threw right before the charge of priority
it has much shields he can throw another nice slash again to put the Mantine Outer Commission
and this puts Casting Strike again in such a difficult position.
He has one bottom Pokemon left and is about to get debuffed with the icy wind.
And no opportunity to peekaboo in that situation but you do have that Pokemon sitting in the
back to clear this debuff which you can in just about 15 seconds ago.
Here comes that gorgeous, another chilling water,
another attack, there's two that you know the stuff is,
you're probably gonna wanna swap out at some point
to clear this double debuff.
But if you swap out, you can skip the gorgeous,
even more energy as passing by point of throw,
the first discharge, I think you might just wanna let this go,
knowing that there's still the licky, licky in the back.
You don't wanna get hit by a shadow ball,
you don't wanna get hit by a full damage discharge,
and licky, licky, or Jelson should be able to take this
next discharge, no problem, passing by,
has a catch opportunity now, still on the licky, licky.
Caleb, does, does Gaspin fight Licky-Licky have enough health to actually get to a charge set while it's double resisting hexes?
It is going to be a call to him, but I think Doombot is pretty on point with his talent, so he wouldn't give Gaspin's fight the opportunity to even go for it.
We'll probably tell the surf beforehand, but Gaspin's like, you're only imparting discharge first, but you're double debuff.
It doesn't even do enough. And Gaspin's like, going for it. Oh, he's trying to go for the death, but he gets sniped down with a sucker punch.
And the sucker punch eliminates all of that energy from the Licky-Licky.
Yes, you did get the Thunder Shock down, but will you get to the double discharge before the double surface available?
I don't even think a discharge is enough damage to knock out the jealousy. It's super effective, but jealousy is quite bulky.
Absolutely. It is not enough. As you can see, the Jelson does reach the back-to-back serve.
The next one going to be thrown on charge-like priority, even if Jelson lost that discharge won't be enough.
But Jelson ain't going to lose no charge-like priority as doing what? Closing it out with the Jelson to start it off 1-0.
and Casper Pike is really wishing that his first discharge
was not double dropped in attack.
He threw that first one while he had his attack two stages
lower.
If he was able to throw that discharge later
when it was at a normal level, maybe the double discharge
would have been able to do it.
But either way, great plays by Doombug.
He's one of the best for the reason.
And the fact is he has this huge experience advantage
And in moments like this, when he looks really locked in,
he is almost unstoppable to beat.
And more importantly, if you got debuffing moves
all around your Pokemon, it's going
to be hard to beat him in general.
That was at least three different debuffs,
two chilling water, and ice squint.
Maybe I'm forgetting one as well.
And catch your fight.
You might have bulk on a seam.
You might have super effective moves,
but none of them were doing enough damage for Doomfist's
squad.
And this is an incredibly unique strategy.
Having the floor just, having the jealousy, having the evil,
We haven't really seen that trio,
but how many times have we seen that trio from Dunebug?
So he has his own unique take on the meta
and it's working.
A talented driver also having an awesome team competition
faced against Caspian Pike,
a newer trainer on this circuit,
but we know the talent that he has.
But if he wants to move on in this tournament,
he has to reverse sweep.
And the problem for Caspian Pike is
he had the best answers possible
for Jellison in that backline.
He had the stuff this.
He had the licky-licky,
but he still wasn't able to close it out.
And we've talked about how Don Dozo,
a great meta read from a lot of our top players,
especially our Gade number two players, our top cup players.
But even better meta read in my opinion
is you go a step forward further.
Don Dozo is an anti-meta.
Jelson is the anti-anti-meta.
And because of how strong Don Dozo is,
you expect it's free,
but it is not free into Droombug's team.
Here we go, Gade number two, Droombug on match point,
by himself, a slightly tough lead,
but still has to super effective chilling water
to do some heavy damage into this night tails.
Cascade Pike decided to sit that Licky Licky
for this game number two.
Still has that, you know, the stunkest in the back line.
Gonna throw this weather ball that's gonna be neutral,
but will we see a pivot out?
Maybe even into a maintain.
And no, actually just gonna stay in.
Gonna have to deal with this super effective chilling water
which will drop the attack by one stage
into this shadow K through night tails.
And, you know, dropping the Licky Licky makes you
like really really susceptible for that jealousy.
And I don't know, I think Caskey and Pike might have been spooked a little bit from that first game, right?
Getting debuffed, thinking that Licky Licky doesn't have much value.
I think the more bigger problem was that the Licky Licky was debuffed, and that's why I didn't have value.
But now, it's just that the back is so free for Dumbug.
He has to play into absolutely everything on the team of Caskey and Pike.
Well, the problem for Caskey and Pike is Dumbug keeps continuing to make Caskey and Pike throw debuffed attacks.
He did the same thing with that Canto Ninetales throwing a debuff weather ball, and now he's already landed the IC win.
So all of these attacks from the Mantine are debuffed as well.
Deciding to throw up the Protect Shield though,
because he knows these wing attacks aren't doing that much pressure.
He can't bang some energy here,
but I don't know if you have the reach even with Night Slash.
I'm not sure if this is enough to knock out.
So he swaps, tries to catch that Water Pulse,
but now suddenly Captain Viak has to throw the Twister,
but he's getting closer to his timer.
And more importantly, he has to throw another debuff,
non-Sap Twister.
Dumbak doesn't even mind that at all.
Saves all the engine cases and looking at the back,
But there's not. It's a stuff is which he has way more play into and let's not forget how much energy has on the people in the back
I believe it's at least two nice flash work. And yes testing by his friends shield up the super vector search going to a lot more damage
And most attached remaining get to the first discharge. He's still in this one, but do about feeling confident as he has another surf ready
He's just going in with different package of attacks different package of moves. He is just looking unstoppable here
He's already forced Caspian Pipe to throw four attacks that were debuffed.
It now just got two Protect Shields with this Jealousy.
He has very low health on all of his Pokemon though,
and Caspian Pipe still has a lot of health remaining,
but has to throw the discharge before the Surf is available,
deciding to Protect Shield it for Doombug,
knowing that he doesn't want to waste this energy.
I love this play from Doombug.
You throw the Surf, you combo play with Ice Wind,
but Caspian Pipe ain't snuff.
No!
Caspian's the resistance Surf on the Manchees.
That is huge for Caspian Pipe here,
able to reel in that water damage that's gonna be not very effective but still
knocks out the man team here and now actually Doombug is not even reaching
for a pivot here he's just staying in with this Jeltsuit maybe he's expecting
the Kanto Ninetales to come in and thinking that maybe he can get to an
attack there comes a sum of his here comes the Florgis but the Florgis is
in range of mudbomb I don't know how Doombug is gonna get out of this.
Kaz and Mike maybe could have thrown maybe one more Thunder Shock but I don't
think his mudbomb is actually enough to KO even when it's not debunked.
This allows Noobla to get that Jell-O-Wall.
No!
The Thunder Shots are just enough.
And Casting Bikes all of a sudden,
back against the wall, has an icy wind,
but you know something?
It's one of the both of us, both of us on this meta,
can take this no problem,
and only a few more Thunder Shots away.
Noobla getting away out of the timer here,
and now comes the mob bomb.
Casting Bikes finding right in this pivotal game,
and might just force a game number three.
Jell-O-Sink does have a little bit of energy,
but does he have the health here?
I don't think so.
Kani, no, he doesn't have nearly enough energy,
his casket bike is going to be able to tie up the series Wow what a series what
a beautiful catch from fast and fight he knew Jim look has a sharpening you do
much want to get that all and his only win condition was catching that resist
the surf on the man team and you might even leaving in and out we spun blue
but today he's debuffed, come on, let's, let's, let's scrap that joke, scrap that joke, come on, hurt it, right.
Alright, alright, I know, I know where you're going.
Today, Dunebuff is debuffing as a bonus, let's go with that.
Yeah, he has, because Gatsby and Spike threw at least five charge attacks that were debuffed,
but I'd really like the adjustment from Gatsby and Spike to keep that Unova stun fist in the back,
because Unova's stun fist is going to be throwing super effective energy into four out of the six Pokemon for Dunebuff.
The only debuffers are the ones that are going to be neutral for the Stuntfist,
but if you're able to keep Pokemon around, clear that debuff in the end,
I think you know the Stuntfist in the back is the best solution for Captain Pipe.
Yeah, definitely. I mean, he did Fetch the League of League.
I don't think League of League is really a problem for him.
It's just, League of League doesn't really hit the hardest,
you know, especially if you don't have a super bank to travel throughout the League,
the Jailston matchup. And once you're debuffed, it's just,
you're kind of a meat shield, but you're not really doing much in return.
So I think that was why he Fetched it,
And maybe it was the right call.
But I do think Licky Licky is still quite safe for
Casting Pike if you could get it into the right matchup.
So you get four shields, right?
Especially with a debuff Pokemon like people and gorgeous.
You could get their first shield right off the bat.
No shield yourself.
Swap out, clear it out.
Let's see if he goes for that.
Or he goes for a similar strategy with that nine tails.
With it, you know what I'm saying?
It's with the Manti.
Manti was really something he leaned into.
And without any electrifies outside of DuneBuck,
it is very safe.
So I do like that he is bringing it into it.
But here we go.
Match points cast in fight versus Dumbug 97
when they will continue their roles
in this world championship.
And it's going to be the nine tails into the Chelsea
a pretty awesome matchup for both Pokemon.
Well, Chelsea is one of those few water types
that can hang on to an energy ball
that's going to be super effective.
So can really win this matchup
versus shadow cantonite does a huge reason
that Dumbug brought into the tournament
already got the protect shield
from that shadow cantonite does
the shadow cantonite does will be able
It's a double energy ball just waiting just making sure that he doesn't get caught on. This is super effective
Jealousy can take it. Let's see what do both does he decides to let it go?
That's my corner land this has the next move expect a potential serve
Wasn't sure if you must come go for the optimization or not
We're just going to trade throw it but as safe as the man team is even if he doesn't have to move
It's not the worst for him and now coming in with a twister does them but go for the shield
He saw two shields remaining and pulled up the shield
and shielded the bait from the twister.
Smart adjustment from Kaspyin Pipe.
Knowing that Doombug is going to be going for the debuff
attacks, which he's doing right now with the ice bin.
So he went for that twister, knowing
that he's going to get that first protect shield
because he's been showing waterfalls time after time,
this time going for that twister and said,
and now he's going to show that water pulse
because there's only one protection remaining.
No way Doombug doubles down in this situation.
The timer is going to be up really soon for both these trainers.
Kaspian has his timer right now.
He could swap, but instead, he's probably just going to let
his man to go down to the Night Slash.
Dumbug went through one right before the twister.
In case Kaspian tried to catch right when he got there,
tried to make it a little bit less predictable.
Dumbug has a little bit of energy remaining,
but Kaspian's like, he's going to throw this red ball first.
There's still the serve loaded on the Jelson,
so Dumbug won't let this go.
And Kaspian's like, Kaspian has to know this ready,
but the problem is, the serve is still
still so effective on hold remaining.
Pokemon, he hasn't even seen the four just yet,
But I guess the, you know, some faces also not been shown.
And catching by the Tunisie's lane to the end,
but earlier can now just go straight
to the ball against Doombug.
Doombug might be calling a supposition
because there's a lot of energy on the night sails.
And catching by going through on bad timing
just to get this off before Doombug gets to the serve.
Well, he could have tried to throw this weather ball
earlier on, but it doesn't matter
because he got the shield anyway.
Do you try to swap?
And there is that swap.
Trying to go for the thundershock.
It actually stuck in that hex.
He was able to get that off.
Doombug doesn't look fazed,
but it looked like he was almost getting knocked out from the thundershock here.
Instead, here comes the Florgis.
The Florgis is going to take the first mudbomb before he can land that debub,
land the chilling water into the stunt fist.
This is actually kind of a dicey situation on Dunebob,
mainly because he could possibly lose charge priority in the end on the Jelston Inter Nintas,
so that Serpi Binks might not be as valuable as it seems.
But first, Dunebob is going to put Tassan right in the situation where he needs to go for two moves,
and if he gets pitted out, maybe even landed well above on the Florgis,
You can still win it because you're gonna have two serves made on this Chelsea.
Timers are coming up soon.
You can see Dumbug trying to reach for it.
Rosa Chillingwater right before it is reached.
But it's not enough.
It's not enough.
And the move is ready on the ninth serve.
Do we see a Samoswap on both players?
Let's see how they play it out.
And you can see Kessin's like reaching for the mud bomb.
And this might be Jack Meats.
Dumbug, he has a serve but there's still two both of them unloaded.
And the Thunder Trunks won't take it out if you don't throw it.
But if you don't throw the move, the ninth serves can finish you off later.
and tries to go for one final head, but he won't do it.
And the underdog short continues as Kaspyin Pie takes
the final victory.
Kaspyin Pie continuing his ascension,
taking down some of the top names in Pokemon Go PVP.
He started at the Indianapolis regionals,
taking out Atta Pocket, Nighttime Cluster, and S.J.
Now at the World Championships,
able to take down Doombug as well,
getting to losers round number five,
just an incredible journey from a new trainer
in championship series, giving hope to all those trainers
out there that they can do it too.
They can sign up, they can join,
and they can beat some of the best.
You just need a little practice, patience, and talent.
And Caspian Pike has all of those.
And go to your locals as well.
That's where the journey started for Caspian Pike.
What a series between these two.
And you can see the great sportsman here
from DoomBug as well.
You know, maybe not the ones he was hoping for,
But at the same time, his best run so far in his fifth world,
he made a top cut.
He's kind of, you know, finally broke the curse
that he's had at world championships.
And I'm sure this won't be his last top cut in worlds,
looking forward to see him perform even further.
But, Casting Fight, keeping the underdog dream alive,
as you can see, that was a crucial catch
on the man team game number two.
The fourth is game number three.
And this, this match was so fun to watch
because it was so neutral all the way throughout.
Every bogeyman I have played, no bogeyman with hard walls,
and both players just playing with precision,
you know, trying to overthink the other person.
DOOMBUG expecting this move, just safe and super late,
knowing he needs it.
But you know something a little too bulky,
a little too much for the forces to handle,
and more importantly, cast a fight with a quick swap,
gave him the entry we need to close it out.
And even though he threw a lot of attacks with a debuff,
I feel like he bounced back beautifully.
In that first game, number one,
he really fell behind to DOOMBUG,
He was bouncing around the battlefield.
Even in game number two,
Doomboke just seemed at top peak level.
And when he's at that level,
he is an unstoppable force,
but Caspian Pfeif knew he hasn't
eaten over a stun fist in the back.
It is unchecked against the opposing team.
I just need to keep it healthy enough
and long around long enough
that I can clear debuffs and close it out.
And that's what he did in two straight games
and he reversed sweep.
And now he is alive in this tournament.
It's just incredible stuff from a new trainer.
Absolutely.
What an amazing battle we've had so far.
We got more exciting battles to come.
The final Oceania player in this Topka,
Daylove Jai will be going against one of the top players
from North America out of pockets.
We got some more Don Doze action.
We got some Laffers Don Doze action.
We know that was pretty crazy earlier.
And I don't think Daylove Jai wants to relive that one
just out of pocket.
But only one way to find out
as we'll head to that match right after a break.
Welcome guys, we're here at Pokemon XP out in the garden, I know, they let us go outside!
I'm with Fareed and Gabby, of course my name's Amy, we're going to take you around some
of the activities that everyone can enjoy here.
So in the Alola region, trainers can work part-time to rescue Kukumuku by chucking them
back in the ocean after they wash ashore, but here at the World Championships we can
have a little bit of a fun competition by trying to chuck them back into the ocean just to see who's
you know a better kikamuka trucker so Amy Farid I think you should need to have a little bit
of a friendly competition to see who's better what do you think? I think we gotta do it. I'm ready.
We see Gabby up here gonna save that kikamuka real good she didn't do it but you know what
They both work really hard for Reid's going to get that bonus for working in a lola.
Good job everyone, saving the Piyokamoku.
Okay trainers, we are outside at the Pin Rani station and what pin have we just got ourselves?
We got the Rani!
Beautiful little ferroff one pins, one available to everyone that's out here
and there's a cue for them but there's another one that we'd like to get so stay tuned because we'll be back.
Hi guys, I'm here at the Furfru Hair Salon and Misty is helping me out with a new look.
We're getting some cute braids and they've got loads of different styles you can pick
from hair, tinsel, glitter, accessories, braids galore, there's so much goodness gracious,
there's just so much.
So we're going to see how the final look comes out.
I really love the little braids, they're so cute!
This is a look, this is a vibe.
So we're here in the Fur Fru Hair Salon
and I am getting special treatment
from my new friend, Claudio.
We're getting green for Pokemon Go.
So I hope you enjoy it guys.
The things we do for Pokemon.
Glam, listen Glam.
Hey everybody, I'm here with Kevin at the bee dome and Kevin why don't you tell us what's
going on here today.
Hi, thank you so much for having me.
Well this is for Planet Bee.
We talk about science education and bee conservation for schools around the Bay Area.
We're here making seed balls because bees are the most important pollinator.
Did you know that there are 20,000 types of species of bees around the world?
I actually did not.
No girl.
All right, well tell me what's a seed ball?
Yeah, so it's just a little bit of clay.
We put some poppy seeds in there.
Kids can just toss it out and then we just help the bees
because bees are very important to our ecosystem
and environment.
Any particular reason why you're using poppy seeds?
Poppy seeds are native to California.
We love California.
Welcome to San Francisco.
And we just want to support more local bees here
in the San Francisco Bay area.
We've had our eyes done.
We've had our hair done.
We've got new pins.
There's so much to do at the Yoga of Wayne Gardens.
Make sure to check it out.
But from us, that's a wrap.
The action is only heating up here at the Pokemon Go World Championships here in San Francisco,
California. My name is home size Henry joined on the desk by Lou the Pikachu. We are filling
out our loser side of the bracket. We already have six of our trainers in the top eight,
two more top eight spots on the line. And my goodness, the slate of matches we have
coming up next is absolutely stacked. We're getting down to the final stages of the competition
here at the 2026 Pokemon World Championships. And you said it Henry, we have a stacked amount
of competition here in the loser side of the bracket. Some incredible contenders, Jai
out of pocket, out of pocket,
taking down Panama previously as well.
He may have been the king of my heart,
but out of pocket is now who I am rooting for
in this competition, as well as PvP table
and our reigning champion, the Elseboy.
Out of pockets, had a pretty incredible losers run,
taking down an adequate Potomac, Auburn.
He has been making quick work of the losers
out of the bracket, but now he has to go up again.
An incredible player from Australia
and one of his very good friends, they love Jai.
I love that sometimes though, when you've got trainers who know each other well, they've probably even, you know,
team built together in the past, maybe have tested against each other.
So you have a little bit of insight into how your opponent likes to play their game.
Are they risky? Are they defensive?
And that can sometimes be what separates a winner from a loser in a match.
Out of pocket though, playing so confidently, really locked in, and making fantastic predictions on what his opponent is bringing.
Could that be the same story being told in this match?
Now, out of pocket has a Pokemon that we've seen having credible success so far with that Dondo.
However, with Jai having a Lapras running Skull Bash,
Lapras is a pretty rough matchup for Dondozo,
so that could dissuade Pocket from bringing Dondozo,
and instead try and opt for safer picks,
because if we do see the battle between those two water types,
that's gonna be a pretty difficult matchup for Dondozo.
I think it's interesting seeing the Lapras though,
and like you said, it does have that big powerhouse attack
in the form of the Skull Bash.
Side wave as well, we definitely know can put in some work.
We've seen that on a few different Pokemon choices,
but for now, let's jump into the leads here,
coming out front and center, Licky Licky versus Corsola.
That's not the start pocket wanted,
but he's pivoting out, he's safe switching into the Malamar.
Jai gonna stay in able to outpace
with that nine turn pacing with Licky Licky.
Out of pocket, Trugs as he no shields,
as a body slam, really doesn't do a lot of damage
onto that Malamar.
Yeah, Malamar not gonna worry about that at all
and said happy to reap the rewards
of all of that energy being farmed up.
Trying to get to two foul plays,
unleashes the first one now
to this unassuming Corviknight.
We've seen Shadow Corviknight output
some insane amounts of damage. Valoblade will come very close to picking up the two hit KO.
Out of pocket, gonna fire off Valoblade number two. Jai will invest to protect Shield.
And as the matchup goes on, as the sand attack damage continues to add up,
Valobar gets closer and closer to shadow air cutter range.
Corviknight has a lot of pressure in this game, so Jai wants to keep it in play. Like you say,
the sand attack is really stacking up and it's getting to these damaging charge attacks too.
Switch timer is up, pocket pivots out, and in comes Clawtire. Clawtire not the fastest to its charge stacks. Clawtire now going to be met with an air cutter bait, but out of pocket. Stone Cold bait call. He doesn't buy it for a minute.
He's reading minds once again out of pocket, knowing exactly how to play this Clawtire, keeping it in the game, now able to threaten with a devastating stone edge. However, Corviknight is going to be able to blink first here, going for the air cutter.
I don't know if I've ever seen Jai's Shadow Corviknight get an air cutter boost. Will there be the time? No!
The Corviknight refuses to boost up its attack. It's a 30% chance, but it appears that the luck is not with Jai on this day.
Yes, Stone Edge will connect as well and seal the deal for that Corviknight. It does give Jai the opportunity to bring in this Altaria from the back.
The Dragon Breath is going to be stacking up some energy, but you can see it's really not doing much at all to that Clodzire, that once again can threaten the Flyer in the sky.
Clotsire does have a pretty good match up into the Altaria, but due to the fact that
that Licky Licky is still exceedingly healthy, that is a bit of a problem for Pocket.
Because even if he's able to neutralize the Altaria, that's not really the problem
Pokemon here.
He needs damage on the Licky Licky, otherwise Corseloop is going to feel pretty helpless
in the endgame.
Altaria can use these guy attacks to try and burn through the shields on Out of Pocket
side.
There's one down, one more to go though, to make things a little bit easier for Licky
Licky.
Considering that Out of Pocket still has a Pokemon advantage, it does have not a lot
of HP remaining though, so you want to be able to keep Licky Licky in the game when it comes in later.
Out of pocket, he's not going to switch. He's going to stay on the field with the Clawed Zire.
He could consider potentially letting this go, because then he can bring in the Corsula.
If Jai ends up switchlocking that Licky Licky, then he can pivot into the Malamar.
But he's not going to pivot into the Malamar just yet, because this is not super power range.
He's going to stay in with the Corsula and look to connect with the Power Gem.
Jai always needs to have quite a lot of energy in reserve, because Jai needs an ability to throw
charge stacks at the Malamar to try and prevent it from making it to that deadly super power.
I mean, Licky Licky's in a prime position right now. It has that shadow wall. It has found it's
marked down onto the glaring course. So being a ghost type, it is going to have that weakness
out of pocket though. Letting this one go through. We know the bulk is going to be able to hold on
and it's banged up. Malamar is now back in play, but look at the energy Licky Licky gets to the
body slam. Licky Licky body slam. Would he easily take the knockout pocket? Fing it through his
options. Is he going to invest the protection? No. He is sacrificing the Malamar. He's saying
win or lose. This game for one, course alarm is all up to you.
There is still that one shield remaining on pocket side as well, so one shadow bull can
indeed be protected, but we're going to see the body slam bait come through. Out of pocket
goes for the shield though.
That does save one rollout for Jai. Out of pocket, now out of protect shield, his energy
management needs to be exquisite. He fires off the power gem right away. This should
be enough to knock out the Licky Licky, but how much energy is available to that Altaria?
Let's have a look. Licky Licky goes down Altaria, regroups on the field, but there's not a lot
of energy in play, it's going to be Strangobest trying to get that, of course, and also able
to get to the Knight-A, Altaria, however, gets the edge.
Oh my goodness, as close as it can get, Altaria on the 12-cycle charge attack priority, Corsima
will fall.
Pocket baited as close as he could, but Jai gets game number one.
I really like the Klot-Tai play on Out-of-Pocket side, almost masquerading a little bit like
a Dondozo.
It stayed on the field, Out-of-Pocket very content to keep it in play, and just constantly
applying pressure with the stone edge to the two flyers that Jai brought in the
form of the Altaria and the Corviknight, but the way that Jai was able to play
around with that Licky Licky was absolutely masterful to this win. I need
to talk about that body slam bait. It really felt like that almost scooped
pocket into throwing that power jam early. If he's able to correctly show the
shadow ball, there's a very good chance that he can end up throwing one more
astonish, way to turn and then outpace the Altaria. So Jai understanding the
moment there and might do this. How many times are we going to see this Corviknight
North air better before it finally gets a boost. I think every time it gets a no
it's getting closer to a yes hopefully hopefully you're gonna see that cool
when I read the rewards for all of its efforts but critically as well it was
once again a master skill of teamwork seeing this licky-licky comment being
up to five pressure to the course lover Altaria putting in some work too looks
like however the trainers aren't messing around which open into game two it's
going to be the nine tails versus Malamar the shadow nine tails he's
signature Pokemon for they love a Jai Jai just gonna look to owner farm here so
is pocket pocket not gonna fire off energy. It's actually gonna be Jai building up past the dazzling gleam going for the weather ball bait
Pocket falls for it and invests in early protect shield. Yeah, once you're going up
And I like the alone of nine tails in play here
You do threaten with that super effective dazzling game as well onto the opposing Malomar
The Malomar has a trick up its sleeve as well
It can retaliate with the superpower doing a significant amount of damage into that opposing nine tails now switching out to reset
The debuff that it would have got out of pocket trying to take the knockout with the rollout
But the Shadow of the Nine-Tales did not get KO'd.
The Weatherball will be reached.
That's critical damage onto that Licky Licky.
And Jai brings out the Altaria.
But this is what Pockets hoping to see.
But those of them just not like that Altaria matchup.
Yeah, the follow-up with the Dragon Breath
really trying to put the pressure onto the Licky Licky here.
Of course, Altaria easily able to take one of these body suns.
But there's a lot of energy to be wreaked here from Altaria
onto that Licky Licky.
Look at it, over farming, trying to get possibly to two Sky Attacks.
This will not be a ring for Sky Attack.
will take the knockout and pocket nose and instant no shield he knows his
licky licky will be able to hang on here and still connect with the charge
stacks it is very low on health he's able to reach the back-to-back body
slams two body sands not gonna be enough to knock out the Altaria but will put it
very very low to potentially set up a farm down for one of his other Pokemon
this is a nice display of the defensive capabilities of Altaria though you know
that you can take that one body slam and Jai also refusing to shield on this
second one as well proving that Altaria is gonna have that longevity on the field
Altaria able to survive back-to-back in comes the Malamar, but can't get the farm down.
Altaria, the bulk is incredible. Able to get to that sky attack.
Out of pocket, gonna let it go, but that's a lot of HP lost on Malamar.
Malamar, they're trying to get the momentum with something like the foul plays here,
getting the damage down, gets to it, and now trying to get a little bit of threatening
damage onto this opposing Corviknight. There's two shields remaining on Jaisai,
not utilizing on Corviknight now, knowing it's easily able to take the foul play.
And it allows Corviknight to just try and farm down with these sand attacks.
But look Malama is getting speedy.
That's a really nice sequence from Jai, calling that the first would be the Val'plague shielding the harder hitting super power, getting the full sand attack down.
Corbinite pays a very heavy price, but has quite a lot of energy, but in the back it's Dondozo, a notoriously very bulky Pokemon.
Jai full sends the payback. Shadow payback can be deadly, but this is a Dondozo we're talking about.
Yeah, this is one of the adjustments Pocket has made coming into this game too.
Benching that 12 dynastead, bringing the Dondozo to be its defensive wall.
Dickily against this Corviknight, but this being relentless with the air cutters coming through.
But is it going to get the boost? Finally, Henry!
Air Cutter is going to be no shielded, no boost coming through!
This Corviknight will refuse to get boosted!
Dondozo is able to get the full farm down, quite a lot of energy available.
In comes Altaria, back-to-back surfs are available.
Dondozo is very low, should not get knocked out for the next dragon breath.
So Pocket should have access to the back-to-back surfs here.
Let's see this come through the shield up on the Altaria,
trying to get down to the Dondozo,
but no, we're going to see the Licky Licky switch.
Very well played by Out of Pocket.
Ninetales takes the KO, but the surf is available.
Dondozo hits the field.
Out of Pocket gets the equalizer,
and we're going to be moving on to a game number three.
Once again, Dondozo, proving wide as the talk of the town here
at the Pokemon World Championships,
coming in as the adjustment for Out of Pocket
and securing that victory,
evening the score, Pocket is still in this tournament.
Sometimes when your back is against the wall,
you're facing tournament elimination,
you have to get a little bit risky.
That Lapras on the Dondozo would be catastrophic,
but if it doesn't end up on the Lapras,
the Dondozo is the decent amount of play
and being able to bait out that Altari
with the Likuli safe switch,
ended up working out perfectly
as suddenly Dondozo felt incredibly strong.
Unfortunately for Jai, imagine a world
in which his Corviknight knew how to air cut her boost.
We could have a very different series here,
but it cannot boost.
We're going to a game number three
and we've got immediate lock-ins from both players.
I mean, call it what you want.
It is unfortunate for that Corvunyver.
Who knows?
This could be the game.
Let's jump into the lead.
It's that Ninetales versus Dondozo.
Oh, that is not the lead.
Jai was hoping to see Jai get a stay in the matchup,
look to try and play it out for now.
He does have access to Dazzling Gleam,
which will hit for some pretty significant damage.
This is his shadow alone in Ninetales, but Pocket knows.
Even if he takes a lot of chip damage here,
Dondozo is never really in any danger
of getting farmed down.
Yeah, Dondozo taking a huge amount of damage
though for its troubles as Ataria comes in,
but those are switches out the rollouts coming across from the Licky Licky on out of pocket side
to try and get some pressure down on this Altaria.
I really like the decision by Pocket to save that energy.
It almost feels like throwing the outrage into the Altaria may have been a bit of a waste,
but by preserving that energy, trusting that if Jai stayed in to an Alolan Ninetales versus Dangozo matchup,
the Dangozo energy will have value in the back.
Pocket understands that, saves the energy, brings in the Licky Licky,
and Licky Licky should still be outside of Double Sky Attack range.
It might be nice to try and unleash that outrage energy a little bit later on
was the shield to down on Jai's side of the field.
Jai however now has the utility with this Altaria
to go for one of the sky attacks.
Licky, Licky letting this go and shielded
is gonna get significant damage on the board.
But once again, the rollouts are something Altaria
has to contend with the energy is up on Licky, Licky side.
No shield from Jai, he is gonna be sacrificing Altaria.
Altaria may barely be able to hang on here,
it's going to be very, very close.
Altaria hangs on, aggressive pinning into the Malamore,
but that's gonna be answered with the Alolan Ninetales.
Yeah, Altaria not able to pace to a charge attack instead,
you gotta bring that Ninetales back into the game
that does manage to get to that weather ball.
Of course, now Malamar has the decision.
Do you use one of those pressure shields?
Yes, you do, because out of pocket wants to use these sideways
to try and get as much damage on the board.
These siloeds do quite a lot of damage,
and pocket has intentionally over farmed.
He farmed until the foul play will take the knockout.
Jai, no shielding.
Maybe hoping against hope that Ninetales can hold on here.
Foul play is gonna land.
Oh, the Ninetales survives!
Oh, no!
Oh, but the side wave takes the KO.
That energy has been lost.
On the thinnest of margins, Ninetales goes down.
That is not what Jai wanted to see. Time to regroup and bring in that trusty Corbinite, however.
Trying to use these sand attacks to get damage down on the Malamar, but Malamar is ready.
It has so much energy on the board.
Losing that charge attack is catastrophic for Jai, because out of pocket still is the energy banked on that Dondozo.
Malamar putting so much pressure on the Corbinite.
The Malamar is still outside of Shadow Air Cutter range as well.
Jai ends up no shielding. He knows that the Dondozo serve will do more damage,
but this situation still looks very, very perilous.
Exactly the Malamite such a prime position don dozo back in the game as well
But now the Corvinite can try and get damage on the board. Oh my goodness. Was that a charge attack priority saxwap?
Oh, it was oh
He finally gets the boost that is one of the best possible plays out of pocket could have made
He would want to throw the payback at the don dozo
He catches the air cutter gets the charge attack priority tie absolute perfection from out of pocket
DondoZo survives, the surf has been reached, and Out of Pockets moving on to Losers Round 5.
Absolutely incredible plays DondoZo showcasing once again why it is so formidable in this meta.
Malamaw coming in going through sideways, but there's nothing Jai could do. Out of pocket advances.
This is the Out of Pocket we are used to seeing on an international stage.
the out-of-pocket who took home the North American international championships in years past I have seen him locked in
On that occasion, and I feel a little bit of deja vu here pocket in top form that gameplay the charge attack priority
CMB's x-wap was absolutely
dazzling beautiful plays
masterful
Images across the game, and I absolutely love to be able to see out-of-pocket at the top of his game as well as seeing the love story
develop a little bit more between Henry and Dondozo. You've got to be happy to see that
Pokemon advancing.
Oh, Dondozo advancing in the world championships. I couldn't ask for anything more than that.
It has been a fantastic day here at Worlds. The gameplay has been incredible. The competition
has been ferocious. And Dondozo continues to show that it is a Worlds caliber Pokemon.
Time and time again. Jive finally got the air color boost. Maybe there was a hope that
can farm down, but it's a Dondo, so you're never farming down a Dondo, so yeah my heart
to break a little bit for the Corbin I a little bit too little too late however you
did get the air cut a boost but already it was spelling disaster is out of pocket was
just in such command the nine tells putting in some really good efforts though with the
weather ball but I think losing all of that energy in that turn you know was able to get
off the charge attack was really where the momentum swung to out of pocket's favor not
having to deal with that second weather ball was so strong and this is the moment right
here. He farms up, he switches one turn before the air cutter to get the catch and lock him into
the air cutter and on the CMP time. That is one of the most difficult plays you can possibly make
in the championship series. He was actually able to see the air cutter boost because of how large
the Dondozo is. The camera angles go a little bit crazy, but look at this. Dondozo refusing to get
farmed down the fist pump there from out of pocket. He is feeling it here and he's moving onto
the top eight at the World
Championship. Dondo so truly
did drive to get away, can't
to victory there, but out of
pocket and phenomenal plays
to be able to behold. But of
course, the Pocorn action does
just keep going. We still have
some more incredible battlers in
the loser side of the bracket
to contend with. In fact,
coming up next, we have PvP
David versus the Elzeboi, our
reigning world champion. Wow.
David, a multi-time regional
champion, feels the boy our
reigning world champion to our
best. I feel like I keep saying
is being true. The level of
competition at this world is
staggering the amount of talent
and just the place we're seeing
absolutely unbelievable. It
almost feels like a crime that
we can only have one trainer
left standing at the end of
Sunday, but it's an absolute
privilege. You have to be here
and watch these players play at
their absolute best. Let's take
a look at these teams. Yes a
little bit of a recap. We've
got once again some familiar
on the side. We've got the
turkic is on PVP David side.
We've got that 19 on the
Elzebois side.
Elzebois also has that jump
bluff and jump bluff can be a
bit of a problem for this team.
A zoom reel, it can outpace it
for super effective damage.
Even though ice beam hits for
double super effective onto jump
bluff, ice beam actually just
don't pick up the one you
killed it. This is the non
shadow jump bluff. So as long
as the jump bluff has its health
intact, you shouldn't be able
to hang on there. But it ends
up being a surprisingly decent
matchup where the lightning
fast pacing of jump love can
kind of make a zoom reel feel
little bit updated and slow. Yeah exactly it can be quite slow to pace to these attacks as well
and the critical thing for me with the Jumpler it has great play into Pukwun like the Malamar being
able to go for those fairy winds and at the same time the energy ball. The zoom rail is not appreciating
that quacks I certainly is not appreciating an energy ball to the face so I think if you can
get the alignment right on the Jumpler for possibly utilize your shields in the right way
it can be a really critical piece of the puzzle for Beelzeboi. Now one very interesting thing
that I've noticed about trainers who play against Beelzeboi's team is very frequently they will
run the Kanto Ninetales into him because often times there's not a lot of jump
left checks available. Even something like a togekiss which in theory you
would think okay I have a flyer, it's a grass type, this should be pretty good.
They're not running down safely, they're running PsyShock. And jump off is so bulky
that even though the pecs are super effective, PsyShock doesn't really do a
lot of damage and acrobatics does actually do a significant amount on
togekiss. So in this matchup you might have to rely a bit more on Pokemon like
the licky licky like that Tanto Ninetales because if the jump off is
brought. There's quite a few targets on David's team. Now we mentioned the ice beam
previously as well going into something like the jump bluff but PvP David's
actually running a really unique Azumarill here. It's not running the ice beam
machine, it's a hydrofunk. So it doesn't have the utility against the jump
bluff, leaving it a little bit more vulnerable but critically I think it
gives it a lot more play into Pokemon like the Ninetales for example. Oh not
having ice beam means the jump bluff is even safer because at the very least if
you can get some damage onto that jump bluff that would be kind of nice but
If you throw a player up at a jump bluff, jump bluff can tank two of those so comfortably, your bubbles do nothing.
That's really going to constrict the lines that David can run.
I wouldn't be surprised if you tried to build around basically licky-licky Kanto 9 tails.
Maybe putting a toga kiss on the field as well, because outside of that, if this jump bluff is brought, that's going to be very, very difficult to deal with.
Yeah, jump bluff looking really strong. You want to just try and avoid obviously the fiery flames of that shadow 9 tails.
Ember, Weatherball, we know how quickly the Ninetales can case to that and that can make things very difficult for the Jumpluff.
But at the same time, on the other side, you do have Pokemon that have the utility to deal with that Ninetales as well.
The Quaxire is a bit of an interesting shout because normally Quaxire is a pretty good bring for the Flyers,
but a Pokemon like Mantine doesn't have that one-shot pressure into a Jumpluff.
If you throw a Stone Edge at a Jumpluff, it's just gonna no shield and throw a bunch of energy balls at you and you're always getting that one hit KO.
that's really fine for the
Quagsire. Quagsire can survive
that very comfortably. So the
dynamic of having the jump up
as well as the man team does
complicate things a little bit
because as we've seen both
David and boom run this exact
same team, they really like
running that Quagsire. And
even if they do run it here,
it's going to have to be
supported with Pokemon that
have better play into that
jump off. Yeah, that's true.
You've got kind of two grass
type coverages in a way. You've
got the jump off that actually
runs grass type moves because
it is a grass type Pokemon,
and then you have the nine
tails with that energy ball as
well. So as long as you have
So as long as the quacks I can kind of pivot around those two Pokemon and have the utility to deal with it elsewhere
then it possibly could be a prime choice. Looks like our trainers however are starting to lock in at the end of the day.
There is one match between advancing in the competition and being sent home packing.
Another interesting thing that I've noticed about players playing into the David slash Boom team is the fact that opposing trainers will very frequently run the Empoli on
Polyon and that's because normally how would you want to steal type into a ground type?
There's the quagsire, but this quagsire is opted for awkward-sale stone edge
Which means that the energy is actually walled by the Polyon
So in a very similar way to how we've seen trainers let let's say a man team get an energy head start and then bring it
A Polyon or vice versa you can let a quagsire get a pretty significant energy head start bringing the Polyon and then that
Defensive typing and water steal typing makes life really awkward for that quagsire
I'm interested to see a potential coming through from Malamar as well because Malamar
we know can farm up lost and nice energy with the side wave.
You have the utility for something like the foul play
to just do some very consistent damage,
but super power I think is critical
when you're dealing with bulky Pokemon like the Licky Licky.
If you can get the energy lined up
and then leech that onto an unshielded Licky Licky,
it's a great way to start breaking through
that bulky Pokemon.
And Malamar, because it is the non-shadow Malamar,
does actually have a winning matchup
into the Shadowcounter Ninetales.
The shadow Malamar actually ends up losing
the two protect shield scenario,
just because the embers and the weather ball end up
just being enough to take the knock out there.
as the non-shadow Malamar, even if you end up no shielding a charge attack, you're never really
getting unburnt down, so it does end up being a bit safer into those cantaline-tailed teams.
Well, the trainers are locked in and ready to go. Give it up for PvP David and Vielzeboy as they jump
into game one of this loser's round of four. The leads are out front in the center. It's going to be
Quaxxire versus Malamar. This is an exceedingly neutral matchup. David can opt out. He's going to
save switch into the Toby Kiss Vielzeboy. Doesn't really have a strong answer with this energy.
Stays in with Amalemar goes for the foul play, but David more than happy to no shield here because this is a non-shadow resisted foul play.
Toki has not the tankiest Pokemon around, but this couldn't incentivize Beelzeboi to try and stay in here because Beelzeboi really doesn't want to take the Orisphere on either two of his Fighting Week Pokemon in the back.
Yeah, in contrast though, Toki can go for the Orisphere into the Amalemar, get a significant amount of damage on the board, pushing it down into the rep, but both of these fast attacks would either start actually putting in a ton of work and then the foul play ready to go. David lets it go.
Can he potentially get the ember down here if he's able to secure the knockout in five embers that could be massive
He's not gonna find out pivot out five bills a boy sending out the licky-licky
Energy is banked in comes the quagsire and that energy could be a big problem for bills a boy later in the match
Especially protect shields are preserved for that nine tails. Yeah, nine tails keeping the energy saved up for later
Quagsire now in place to start farming up of its own and putting in some work against the licky-licky as the switch time
the start to reset. Licky Licky of course able to apply pressure of its barrier with something like
that shadow ball but it looks like Piazza has energy for days. And the non-shadow plaques are
one of the matchups that it's actually taking for is this Licky Licky matchup. You'll notice that
the shadow actually is in kind of an awkward position where two shadow balls can just throw a
pick up the knockout. The non-shadow plaques that are can survive two shadow balls. That's why
Beelzeboi after firing off the shadow ball is forced to go for a double body slam instead.
Keeping an eye on these timers as well it looks like Beelzeboi has the utility to switch after
so this charge attack comes through from the frag side.
The question is, are you gonna use a shield?
No, allowing Licky Licky and his bolt
to be able to take this, put it in the red,
and allow the switch for that Malamar.
And even comes Malamar,
he'll be able to get a little bit of damage down
onto that, onto that quag side.
The quag side very quickly,
they get into the off-putting,
off-putting will pressure away a shield.
David's gonna pick it out,
he brings to the nine tails,
but nine tails cannot get the farm down.
Malamar hangs on,
and Malamiss is gonna pressure David
to have to put up a protect shield.
Exactly, you wanna keep in nine tails in the game right now.
The super power as well will put the debuffs onto the opposing Malama, even though it's a low HP as well.
It does just give a little bit more of a confidence boost, let's say, to that 9-tiles with the Ember to finish it off.
But now David wants to be able to rack up that energy and start dealing with Pokemon like the Empolion.
You're at the Weather Ball already. Can you get through to this Empolion?
David has so much energy on this 9-teal.
Fieldsboy forced the no shield at first.
Weather Ball does just under 50%, but with the Embers, it should come very close to picking up the 2 KO.
David ends up playing to the charge attack every time he has to put up the shield that
Hydra came in would secure the knockout, but he has locked into a weather ball
That should just about knock out being polion after that Ember damage looks like they're both playing the same game
However, energy on energy this one weatherfall will come through the other boy letting it go through
But you know that there's another one prime ready to go on that nine tails
That's gonna try and get on the licky-licky the licky-licky gets the advantage no shields remaining off you'd be David side to the shallow ball
We'll connect will this shadow ball take the knockout night deal should hold on
It comes to Quaxire.
Can Quaxire get the farm down here?
Yes, it can!
Quaxire farms down the licky-licky.
David survives and takes game number one.
Not only taking game number one, but also going one step closer
to knocking out the reigning world champion from the competition.
Things got very close there.
Between the 9-tels and the Quaxire, fantastic plays once again.
I feel like in a lot of Beelzeboi sets so far today,
we've seen him drop that first game,
but it almost feels like he's the king of adjustments,
where you can take one game up, Beelzeboi,
but now is the hard part.
You have to win a second game.
Beelzeboi has routinely been down,
but managed to find a way back and get the reverse sweep.
So if you're David, you know you're so close
to making it to the top eight,
but getting another win off the reigning world champion
is no easy task.
That's the thing. You've got to take the disappointment
and learning from that previous game,
shake it off and advance into the next match
with a clear slate ahead of the game.
PvP David's not out of the woods yet either as well.
You are playing a best of three set,
And if you're going up against the Brainy World Champion, you know, as you said, Henry, if his back's against the ball, he's gonna come out swinging.
And that was as close as it could have gotten there, the Ninetales with the 1HP survive.
But he pitted out into the Quagsire at these mud shots, doing enough to get that farm down, deny Licky Licky inability to make it to a charge stack.
The Cable Ninetales actually did survive with that one hit point remaining, with a charge stack loaded.
So even if the Quagsire couldn't finish the job, Ninetales was ready.
So either way David had options there, but it's only fitting it kind of feels like wax our has has been the signature
Pokemon for this team
So it's kind of fitting that quagsire was it the one who was able to secure that final knockout
Do you know who I want to see though because there's a Pokemon that can deal really well with quagsire is that jumper?
Yes, I tell you this leaving it scared though
nine tails is always a bit of a worry
But if you can kind of surround it with bodyguards, so like run the jump look with two anti-nice this Pokemon
you're kind of hedging your bets at the 9 deals brought then jump off should
hopefully be able to avoid that matchup and if you can avoid that matchup it
looks really really good here well if the other boy does want to make that
adaptation and bring in the jump off it is gonna leave the quacks are quaking in
its little boots because one of those devastating energy pools will be able to
completely wipe quacks are off the map but of course the alignment is gonna be
key and both of these trainers are well versed in thinking turns ahead trying to
see where their opponent is going to go looks like however we're going into game
Number two the leads are out. It's gonna be the Malamar versus Malamar mirror
Here we go with the perfect mirror match
This matchup is heavily determined by who wins charge deck priority
Typically in this matchup two foul plays will come very close to spin the knockout
What should barely miss the knockout unless there is more sideway of damage
So usually as you see this first foul play connect this Malamar should survive this just into the green eight V
Oh, but it looks like the other boy might not be running as high of a rank of Malomar as some might because he ends up in the yellow
Yeah, it is able to retaliate with a foul play of its own though also taking down the yellow that onto the opposing Malomar
But look at the energy just being farmed out the back lines are interesting to that is a practice
And that is the Jumper. He's going through the harder hidden superpower
He's gonna try and take the knock out here. The other boy has to make a call
He lets it go with the super power connects put the Malomar hangs on as low as it can get
In comes Licky Licky reading that Toby his switch it Malomar gets out
of there but that energy is banked for later on Beelzeboi's side. Now once again
you've got Licky Licky versus the Togekiss. The rollout is going to start
stacking up some damage but we know that the Aura Spirit is that utility move on
the Togekiss to apply pressure to Licky Licky in return. If the Togekiss can be
removed from the field of play that would clear a path for jump off to be able
to sweep. Body Sambay comes out from Beelzeboi. David is going to let it go.
Very nice bait call from him and now he has access to that Aura Spirit. Thing is
with the body slam connecting it's doing exactly what Beelzeboi needs to do to
because Conceitron can remove a play to make things easier for this jump-fluff.
You don't want to have to take those pets.
The more damage, the more work that the Licky Licky can do right now,
the better for that jump-fluff later on.
Nobody ends up double shielding.
He's heavily investing in the Licky Licky.
This means that all protect shields are now down,
and that could set the stage for that Quagsire
to actually land two stone edges into the jump-fluff.
Got aggressive, pick it out. He gets jump-fluff on the field.
Jump-fluff is behind on Energy, but with that insane pacing,
It's not even really going to end up missing being a little bit behind on energy here.
The stone edge will do quite a lot, but he should be able to double up on these energy balls momentarily.
Jump-up is desperately trying to catch up here.
As you said, one stardage comes through, there's a huge amount of damage with that second.
That energy ball is ready to go.
There are two shields up on PvP Davis side, however.
So even if you utilize these against both of the energy drills on the opposing side,
it looks like the jump-up is still going to be vulnerable.
Oh, he over-forms, he plays for the charge-separity type.
This is going to be incredibly close.
If the Jumpluff hangs on here, it would be with fractional HP remaining.
Billsaboy crosses his fingers, but it takes the knockout and the energy has been lost.
That is not what the Raining World Champ wants to see.
Jumpluff goes down, the pressure of that second energy pull, removing a shield,
or a Pokemon from play is gone.
Now everything rests on this Licky Licky.
He committed to the Licky Licky, putting both Protect shields on it,
but unfortunately that left the Jumpluff vulnerable.
Shadow Ball, that's just not something Quaxxire has to worry about.
Quagsire gets closer and closer to the back to back Aqua Tails.
That's the thing, you get one Aqua Tails through, you get another one through,
you also have a shield for good measure to keep your defensive capabilities in play.
The Malamar on the back of the Elderboy though, I believe, does have a lot of energy,
but it has very little HP remaining.
And that is going to do it.
The charge attack priority win for the Quagsire.
Licky, Licky will fall.
In comes the Malamar.
Malamar falls as well and the world champion goes down.
PvP David, he's top eight here in San Francisco.
David does quite literally take down Goliath here in this match.
PvP David advancing, knocking out the reigning world champion in this tournament.
Congratulations. Incredible play.
QuaxxR once again proving why on this team build between David and Boom,
it is one to watch in the competition.
What an incredible series. They are brilliant gameplay by David.
Everyone in the arena collectively held their breath to see what jump off hang
that was about the exact hit
points where it could have been
maybe a one hit point survived
or a knockout of the jump
club didn't have what it took.
It got knocked out and with that
energy lost, it just felt like
David was just unfeatable at that point.
Yeah, the momentum completely
dropped away and you could see
the method in the madness as well,
getting the two energy balls,
trying to get that pressure on to the
quacksite and remove the shields from
play. But I think banking all the
shields on the Licky Licky, the return
of the investment was just not there
in terms for BL's avoid and
unfortunately once the jump club
Jumpluff went down that really spelt disaster.
And right there, you can see it on his face,
he knew the moment Jumpluff fell,
all was lost, because the quads are,
which is too far ahead.
He had energy stored on the Valomor,
energy stored on the Licky Licky.
He had a game plan there that he was gonna try
and play to you where if he can get that shield down,
trap David into the church,
security tights are trapped on a one hit point,
then maybe with all the energy,
there's actually an opportunity to win the game,
but unfortunately, it just did not have the hit points there.
We saw from the first stone is landing.
It was as close as it can get there, even just the extra mudshot that David did there,
because every fastball has to do at least one damage, even if it is triple or resisted there.
So even just the extra mudshot that David did before, Dory, that could have been the difference between a knockout and a survival.
Honestly, PvP David has got to be feeling on at Cloud9 right now, so I think it's time to go hear words from the man himself with an interview with Fareed.
the world championships.
And it's not the first time that
you've been into the top eight
because two years ago, you
played against feels with he
knocked you out. You've just
done the same to him. How does
that feel? Yeah, it feels quite
nice to get some, uh, I guess
revenge a bit from how I and
yeah, top eight feels amazing.
Yeah. Now you're going to be
going up against out of pocket
What are your thoughts going into that matchup for a second time?
Not much too... I haven't really thought about it that much, but I'm just looking forward to the match.
Aiden is a good friend of mine, so I'll just say take one game at a time, I think.
And now, taking a step back, obviously Worlds last year didn't go as well as you wanted it to.
This year you've really locked in, you started team building with Boon, you've had a good season already, you've got a title.
What were your expectations coming into this weekend after that break?
Coming into this world, I wasn't feeling super great, but always the support around me has
kept me going and sheared me on and given me some motivation for this tournament, I would
say so.
Especially my dad, yeah.
You've always been someone who's had a very calm demeanor, but I feel like this season
you've really focused, locked down, and you've got a level of composure that has elevated
your gameplay.
Is there something that you do to try and improve that mentality year on year?
like each year that goes by you have to really like not only focus on your
gameplay but also the mentality go into different types of game you have to
always lock in and stay focused and stay calm even if you have a pretty bad
situation ahead of you. Now you mentioned your father already I know there's a
lot of people supporting you from friends and family who would you like to
give a shout out to? Obviously Boom and my dad are staying with me and all the
team pizza crew as well and my friends at home and my family at home now we
heard pocket earlier he said that the chances of him winning this weekend are
a hundred percent how do you feel about that well I would say a thousand percent
for me I love to hear that BBB David best of luck in the rest of your matches
cast us back to you thank you so much for read good to hear a young trainer
with confidence on stage there David he said a hundred percent I got a thousand
percent for you so now our top eight is set and we're gonna be moving into these
top eight matches if you win you move to top six and then you end up playing
some of these trainers who ended up dropping to losers from the winners
semi-finals they have been waiting quite a few hours while the losers bracket
progressed to get there but the action only getting better as the day goes on
here in San Francisco and with every victory they getting closer and closer
not only to the title, but also to more prizes, to the coveted trophy as well.
There's so many amazing things up for grabs for these players,
alongside the glory and memories they make along the way.
And day two has been such an intense day of competition.
You mentioned as well, you know how these trainers,
some of them have had very long breaks since their last game,
and it's quite hard to sometimes keep up that momentum in the adrenaline,
but at the same time, some of them, I think,
will appreciate a little bit of rest and recovery.
Whereas for the trainers who have started in the losing bracket
and have made these deep runs, they probably have a lot of momentum
I say one a lot of games in a row, but they also probably haven't had a lot of time off because if you win you keep going
You keep playing and we've been progressing straight through these losers rounds
So something we've got the players ready on stage top eight here in San Francisco
And we've got Caspian Pike vs. King oWT now start your time as how long is it gonna take Henry to mention one Pacific?
Pokemon there we go
That was like half a second on the clock, one count in Pokemon Go.
I mean, Dondozo is definitely one of the key Pokemon to talk about,
but on the opposing side, there's actually the nemesis of Dondozo I want to talk about,
the Hissui and Electro, having Dundashock, Wild Charge and Energyful,
that's one way to counter the dominant force that is Dondozo, right?
Shadow Kingra also could be a pretty significant problem.
If Shields are down for Dondozo and Outrage lands, works out pretty well,
but you would have to always guarantee that you get the Shields down scenario,
so I don't think this is actually a particularly strong matchup for Dondozo,
So Caspian may have to rely on his other picks, and a lot of the other Pokemon on his team,
specifically the Fortress, the Licky Licky and the Stun Fist, were actually kind of the core that he was able to build his team around in Indianapolis.
So he's very familiar with these Pokemon, even if Don Gozo isn't bringable here, he should have an ability to still utilize his other Pokemon and craft a line that can set him up for success.
It's a good job there's five of the Pokemon on the team there.
To be able to carry the ship for Caspian Pike,
a trainer who won a regional right at the very end
of the regional season here in 2026
and has come in as a hot favorite to the world championships.
But King OWT also a incredibly strong contender
and ready for this match.
The leads are out front and center for our trainers.
Give it up for Fero and for Foratris.
That is the lead King OWT was hoping to see
a safe switch into the licky-licky.
Does Caspian consider throwing on alignment here?
No, he does not.
and that's gonna actually give you free drill pack over to the Fero.
No shield comes out from Caspian Pike.
He would rather take the damage here than anywhere else,
but since the Licky Licky has taken a lot of damage,
now certainly Shadow King will have a significantly easier time getting rid of it.
The shields I think are gonna be critical here.
You've got three Pokemon on King OWT's side
that are slightly on that fray-less side as well.
So making sure you're utilizing their shields is gonna be critical.
Big damage coming down onto the King's Drabber.
Once again, these Dragon Breaths stacking up.
The issue is the fast pacing of this Licky Licky.
back-to-back no shields for King OWT. Shadow Kingdra now into the red HB but
should be able to over farm quite significantly the rollouts are getting
it pretty low but he will be able to fire off energy right before the body
Sam is reached. Caspian will actually invest a protect shield. He wants the
energy on this Licky Licky. Looks like the Kingdra just is hanging on in the
game. It does manage to get to the swift though before it is felled by those
rollouts so a shield coming up on Caspian Pike's side wanted to keep the Licky Licky in
the game. A shake of the head though. Caspian Pike feels the heat. Caspian
That is not what he was hoping to see.
He desperately needed that rollout to seek
with an arc out, in comes his two in Electrode.
Stunner shots are adding up.
Caspian shaking his head.
He does not like his positioning in this game.
He won't go for the shadow ball.
Shield comes up.
Does he have the body slam here as well?
He does.
So he will get guaranteed damage onto the Electrode.
Yeah, Electrode just going to roll around
and take this damage here in play.
You're going to be able to absorb it quite nicely
and start using it.
Attacks to start farming up the last little bit
on that licky, licky.
Possibly trying to put it into a good position.
against something in the back.
You know that you've got that farterist.
The energy is banged, and Fero finds his mark down
onto the farterist once for all.
These Pets can start putting in some work.
Thanks a lot of energy.
He brings in the stunfisk.
I really love the decision making here by K.O.WG
to not throw the wild charge first.
He throws the wild charge, it telegraphs the pivot out,
and Caspian could then read back
if the zero turn switched into the stunfisk
and then outpays the Fero.
But by not throwing the wild charge right away,
he doesn't telegraph when he switches,
and that gives Fero the one pet head start
that it's going to need to be able to outpace the stunfisk
and reach the double drill run before double this charge.
It truly is an information game out there.
So really great play on Casting Punch Side
to preserve that information.
Fero, however, once again, being ferocious,
going for another drill run,
this is something that is gonna be able to do
a huge amount of damage to the stump
as you go on Casting Punch Side
and actually remove it from play.
Back in comes the Fortress, but Fortress is in danger.
This is about to be a charge attack barrage from King OWD.
Here is the drill pack.
This will not take the knockout,
but there's the Wombo Combo Incomes Electro.
There is the wild charge! Fortress has no hope of withstanding this wild charge as King OWT takes game number one.
I love the contrast here. The wild charge kind of preserved on the Stunford side, whereas the Electro just able to unleash absolute chaos there to close out game one, giving King OWT one step closer to staying in the competition.
That was an incredibly well executed end game from King OWT.
Slight miscalculation from Caspian in the mid game as Caspian did not want to have to burn the second protect shield
But the shadow king gra held on barely clinging to life there with a tiny little bit of its 8v bar
But it made the second twist it got shields down and then again
I can't stress enough how important it was to not throw the wild charge don't telegraph your switching get the fear on the field
Caspian cannot hope to react in time he ends up staying in and faking energy
But it still just was not enough
I really like the way these Pokemon made work through that licky-licky
that was able to, you know, apply a lot of pressure
with the rollouts, farm out a lot of energy,
but just the constant pressure coming through
on King OWT's side, particularly from Pokemon like that Fero,
just stacked up and up and up,
and then once that Licky Licky was down,
the alignment was really in King OWT's side.
And Caspian fights last opportunity to win the game
was when he tried to go for a drill pet catch.
But King OWT, he knew, he just had to keep farming
at that point, and as long as he kept farming,
he still had a protect shield.
So even if he stayed in as a retard stack,
as long as he did keep farming,
I mean, I feel like it's kind of a common saying in our community where they can't catch if you don't throw
He just doesn't throw the drill back.
Caspian tries to catch. He does not get it. And now Caspian facing elimination at the World Championships
He's gonna have to dig deep and craft the perfect line to mount this comeback and win game number two
Let's see if there's any adjustments from either trainers coming into game number two. It is looking like a run back
We've got fear and forrest once again
It feels like deja vu, the exact matchups that we saw before. In comes Licky Licky, Licky Licky.
He looked to fire off the body slam, an instant adjustment from Caspian.
He wants damage on the Fero to potentially, if there's ever a world where she can bug bite it down with that force translator on,
landing that damage actually very, very important.
Yeah, Fero does have a lot of energy up on the board, but we know Licky Licky is easily going to be able to take this.
Fero able to unleash some of that with the drill pet getting the edge of the same type of attack bonus onto Licky Licky.
This time going to bring out the electrode. Oh my goodness, making the read that it's not actually the Stunfish from the back.
Now King Drain the Stunfish, still not a good matchup for the Stunfish. We've seen Shadow Surf's connect, that damage is deadly,
but it is better than the Electro Matchup, so for Caspian not out of the woods yet by any means, KOWT will have to be very precise with his over farms.
Now we saw in Game 1, Caspian Pipe preserve the Licky Licky with a shield, that kind of a very similar point in time.
preserving those shields, letting the Licky-Licky go down to the discharge and releasing all that energy on the Electro side.
Electro, however, has another wild charge ready to go, his defenses are dropped, but it means that the Fortress is forced to go for that shield.
Is Fortress ever able to get a bug bite down on the Electro, bug bite down on the Fero, and then get debuffs onto the Kingdra?
I think that might be the winning condition here, as Cassian just looks to farm up, there comes the drill pack.
Cassian has to decide, is this worth the protect shield? He says yes, but Kigo WT will have the ability to pivot out.
to pick it out if he thinks that he cannot survive
the barrage, Bugbite.
That Bugbite farm down is a torn order,
but while the things have happened here,
the Pokemon go well, the championships.
Faratris now in a position where it can go for this Rock Tomb
and just start getting some of the debuffs
rolling on King OWT's side.
Caspian is really hoping that with the attack drop,
he will be able to survive that Shadow Surf.
Surf does a lot of damage,
but even the Dragon Brass are hitting so incredibly hard.
King OWT has to really hope this does take the knockout here.
Surf connects, Foratris able to hang on
with enough hit points remaining to make it to the sand tomb.
Does manage to connect through on that sand tomb.
There is one shield remaining on King OWT's side.
You can see him calculating, does he want to preserve
this King draw? Yes, he does.
Keeping it in the game.
It will be lowering his defenses though.
In comes the stun fest.
This end game is going to involve
an incredibly precise energy management.
King OWT gets the shadow surf.
This does a lot of damage.
It is debuffed.
Kastian has to perfectly manage this end game
and he needs the charge attack to land on the King draw.
That shot is surfed, putting in some work.
Spirit takes the scars. It is going to have to withstand some of the damage, but the stunfish is there.
And he gets the double of King of WT, tried for the catch, but Caspian Pipe with the patience.
He gets the back-to-back discharges. Kingra not anywhere near the swift, and despite an exact run-back of lines,
Caspian Pipe, the master of adjustments, plays differently, gets the equalizer. We're going to game number three.
Oh my goodness, you called it perfectly where it was going to come down to the finest of margins with that energy and the way that the Stumpfist got to the double discharge just meant there was so much momentum on Caspian pike side that there was nothing King OWT could do.
I'm honestly at a bit of a loss for words. I don't think I've been at a loss for words much during these World Championships. The plays have been incredible, but that is the perfect demonstration of the insane level of skill these players have.
You have identical matchups, quite literally.
Pokemon for Pokemon, the exact same.
How do you make the difference there?
And Caspian Pike, it all started by throwing the body sam at the Fiora to get a little bit of chip damage,
and then potentially set up a bug bite down.
King OWT, through Batjabat Wild Turtles, actually limited the farm of that fortress to try and get himself farmed down faster,
but it still didn't matter.
That shadow fortress, so incredibly oppressive.
Out of the endgame there, King OWT, his last out was a catch attempt on a Fiora,
the patience of Caspian Pike does not let the catch up and doubles up on discharge and now it's a
winner take all game number three this is top eight at the world championships this is win or go
home. The Shadowforrest has well put in so much work with the Divas, Rocktube, Santu, you have your
choice of one if you want to lower the attack or defense and that gives yourself the trainer
so much flexibility. Caspian Pike playing so beautifully in this game but coming into a game
3. Do we predict any adjustments? One interesting thing to note about the shadow
king draw on King OWT side is because it is the shadow king draw it actually gets
what's called a dragon breath break point into Mantine. So if Caspian ends up
adjusting to Mantine, because it is shadow, each dragon breath does one extra
damage onto the Mantine, meaning that what's normally a pretty rough matchup
for Mantine, sorry a pretty rough matchup for King Drug, if it's an on shadow
king draw, is a pretty okay matchup which shields up for the shadow. Exactly and it
It looks like our trainers are ready.
Give it up one more time for King of WP
and Caspian Pike.
We're gonna see a change.
The steel types are on the field.
It is Tinker Tonga, Forrest.
Even though the bug bites are resuscitated,
the aggressor in this matchup
is definitely the Shadow Bug Bite Forrest.
Caspian Pike reaching for the sand
to not quite able to get their King of WT,
full sense like Anton Hammer.
This is going to hurt.
This is gonna be a significant amount of damage
landing onto that Shadow Bug Bite Forrest.
That is a swing and a connect of damage onto the Forrest.
The Forrest does have a retaliation of its own.
being able to go with the sand tomb, going on shielded into King of WT's Tengetongue
does super effective damage, but in contrast to that gigaton hammer is so underwhelming.
In comes the Ninetales, a bit of a slow counter switch there from Caspian Pipe, and if you
give even an inch of wiggle room to that Shadow Cangor 9 tails, it can put it to devastating
effect.
Manteen hits the field, but Manteen is already at a pacing deficit.
Now when you get that Cangor 9 tails and energy head start, Caspian feels like he's behind,
he's going for the Twister Bait, King of WT calls it, he no shields it, what a play!
Ninetales doing what it does best farming up the energy and taking names in this game being able to not have that shield energy ball is
Primed and ready to go going to be retaliating with some good offensive pressure
This energy ball will not take the knockout onto the man team and castian pike knows it
He is not going to be putting up to protect shield can he potentially get the double up here?
No, he cannot that's where the energy advantage on the nine tails is such a problem despite the fact that this is allegedly a
Pedimentary for nine tails nine tails basically remove the entire man team and there's almost no residual energy
Twisted comes through, does felt the 9 tails, but now the Kingdra is in play, going for these Dragon Breaths, farming up energy and putting in some work against that opposing Licky Licky.
Kingdra in that Shari form as well will be able to deal additional damage with this Surf. We've seen how he can stack up even into a Pokemon like Licky Licky.
This Surf is going to be no shielded, Licky Licky now approaching in perilous health range.
Kaspian Pike, he builds up past the shadow ball, he base with a body slam, King OWT has
to make a call, he will put up the protect shield, he caught one bait but this time ends
up shielding it.
Once again we're just going to see these shadow balls come through, this is a great coverage
move that the Licky Licky has able to deal that additional bit of damage particularly
into a shadow variant like the King Drift, it's a huge amount but does not secure a knockout.
King OWT shaking his head though, banks that energy, Tinketown comes back in just trying
to get down these ferry winds into Licky Licky.
Tinketon could not get the farm down.
Licky, Licky will make the shadow ball.
King OWT puts up the protect shield,
but now Caspian Pipe can hit it out.
In comes the fortress,
fortress getting ever closer to the sand tomb.
There's still two protect shields to hide behind.
It just seems there is no path for King OWT.
Looks like the sand tomb will come through
onto the supposing Tinketon.
Is it gonna be enough at this point
to get the KO? No, Tinketon still in play.
It does have a bulldoze of its furrow,
and in fact, I think it's got two of them.
There is a lot of energy still on that king draw.
That bulldoze missing the knockout.
Caspian is gonna force out energy here, but the problem is even if you're able to get all protect shields down
There's still fast attack pressure available into the king draw. There's the man team
There's still the licky-licky Caspian having all three Pokemon alive is a little bit tough here in comes the king
Drago is for the surf, but the question is can King
Drago actually getting fast move farm down the thing is Casper fights Pokemon is so low on HP
Can the dragon breath do it?
Dragon breath does do extra damage here Caspian. He's gonna fall hold on a moment
This could be turning. In comes the Licky Licky. Licky Licky gets the farm down.
This is going to be close. Does one fairy with take the knockout here?
He survives! He gets the farm down! A miracle win! King OWT!
If you're going to come for the King OWT, you better not miss. And Caspian Pike misses the mark.
King OWT remains in the Pokemon Go World Championships.
That game looked over.
How did he do that?
Sensational.
You can see the emotion there for King OWT.
All books lost, but that's why you stay calm on your pressure.
You do not give up.
He finds a way.
He had no hit points on any of those Pokemon
and he's able to take all three knockouts.
And that extra break point you get from being the Shadow King
farming down the man team that made the difference.
My heart is absolutely racing.
We were full on jumping around back stage here,
because that was such an electric race to the finish line.
And that Shadow King, they're just able to pit
Caspian Pike to the post, the Dragon Breath.
We've spoken a lot about how it could be so relentless,
constantly farming away.
And the HP deficit Caspian Pike had
was just not enough to keep him in the game.
Caspian Pike was so far ahead that entire game.
It felt like it was like a 99% win probability there.
But that's why it's not 100, cuz King OWT, those dragon breaths,
it's so hard on the Mantine, got the farm down there.
Licky, Licky got the farm down, but the Tinketon, was it at one HP?
No, it survives the rollout, and King OWT, he couldn't believe it.
He was at a complete loss, what a magical game there.
Incredible run by Caspian, make it at the top eight.
but it's King OWT moving on to top six.
My heart does go out to Casper and Pike
because that was such a beautifully played game,
but unfortunately when you're going up against someone
like King OWT who has his eyes set
on the next stage of the competition,
it can just be too much of a mountain to climb.
Whoo!
I really do need a little bit of a break up
but that one was intense.
But again, showing the high caliber of play
from our trainers, the end of the day,
this is the world championship.
We've put the best of the best into this competition
and we're whittling it down
to just our remaining contenders buying
for that World Champion title at the end of Championship Sunday tomorrow.
That match was absolutely incredible.
That's the gameplay we expected the World Championship.
We've had seen it all weekend.
It's absolutely unreal and the action doesn't stop here.
We're going to be taking a quick break, but coming up on deck,
we are going to have a high octane matchup between PVP David and Out of Pocket.
PVP David an incredible regional champion from Sweden.
Out of Pocket, a former international champion from the United States.
Don't go anywhere! These battles are going to be incredible!
Please welcome to the stage your Pokemon Go finalist, your champion from Spain, BASCALNESS!
My name is Leo and I'm from Spain.
I will be the winner tonight because it's the five baddies, the Pokemon Strayak, which is my representative Pokemon.
My first time competing was in Liverpool in 2003, where my dad came with me to Liverpool
and I also got second place and then I won the Grand Regional and I would love to repeat
that and win the next World Championship.
The last three seasons I didn't have a gold medal but I had a double trophy which was
the USC one so I'm really proud of that.
your 2025 EUIC international champion.
It was like a really fun experience because also the final was
against a really good friend of mine, which is Cisrilo.
And I actually lost my final in Barcelona in my home city.
So I really proud of that.
And I think it's a really memorable moment.
He is going for the triple crown here.
Basically, my team has play support,
which is a really good Pokemon for this meta.
So I think my team is really fun to play.
Three ball flex from Potomac, he is so on point.
So if I had to say an MVP for this weekend,
I would say it was Cortula.
I really liked that it was tight for this meta.
He did really help me to get this far in the tournament.
Yeah, actually, I was really worried about the mod rest
And I had to face a Maltres in the ground final so that it wasn't really good for me.
And then maybe Sizer, because I didn't have a real response.
But I think that's all, because my team, I think it was really safe into a meta.
Execution is just on another level.
So the ground final was the most difficult matchup I had this weekend.
Because of the Maltres, and also, Penseboy is a little failure.
So I had to play around that, and so this initiative did really good to bench pressure
because the counter is to the mud race, which are not really countered,
without really upplay by the shuttle initially.
So I had to manage those two, but also Stelix and Laplac, which were really good to my team,
and I think I don't really have that much of a play at the start.
you
I have been excited to see this the entire time this is the item I've had my eye on more than anything else this jacket right here
It's beautiful. It's special. I'm not exactly sure where I can wear it except everywhere and I want it very bad. I will be back for it.
Because secondly, I'm not allowed to shop for this right now.
Welcome back trainers to the 2026 Pokemon go world championships.
You just got a little preview of the Pokemon Center and we're going to have a little
spread and it's Spriggles pop out onto the cast.
Welcome back everybody.
Speediest you to with Amanda Lundberg.
It's not the only one that can do pop outs here at the World Championships, but it was
a great look through the Pokémon Center.
So much stuff going on here and so happy to be with you guys as we're completely narrowing
down the field to our top performers here at the 2026 San Francisco World Championships.
Man I realize I need to get my Twitch Watchman that's in so I can claim Beelzebois at Tinket
Time so I was looking at the chat.
There's over 25,000 people watching right now.
Let us know in the chat if you've played your drops yet.
And speaking of, you're going to want to make sure that you are because Beelzebub
has actually been knocked out of this tournament.
But you can still get the ticket done that he won last year with.
And speaking of, we're going to go swoop down to the stage because those players are ready.
And one of them was the person who did knock out the champion.
Let's sit down to the floor, everybody.
This is going to be out of pocket, taking on PDP David on stage.
Out of pocket has made some of the most insane plays.
I have seen him make in his entire career.
Mainly, it was that swap in, charge attack,
priority tie with his Dandozo.
Hit it with the dozo, as I say.
And he was able to win a close series doing insane things
like that.
No, it was always saying that.
Now he's got to do even more crazy things
if he wants to get past PDP Davis.
Now listen, out of pocket, he was the trainer who knocked out
two world's finalists, being both inadequate and also,
Now that it's slipping my popcorn man here,
how could popcorn man slip your ride?
Yeah, how could popcorn man slip your ride?
David P. David knocking out the actual World Champion,
facing off against each other in this Losers Round Five.
We're hopping right to that floor.
One of our trainers is already locked in.
This is Losers Round Five, everybody.
Again, all these matches are such high stakes,
because if you lose this, your tournament is over.
And I know you like battles.
And what do we have for them, Amanda?
We've got battles.
Let's hop into it.
Game number one, PvP David leads Malamar and so does out of pocket.
That's everyone's friend Malamar onto the floor here is that both start to charge up a little bit of energy.
There's a lot of important things that maybe these trainers know about each other already if they've ever screamed against each other.
Such valuable information as who wins charge attack priority.
The Malamar with the higher attack will be the one who gets to throw first.
We didn't see it on the first one as out of pocket through before PvP David who is now throwing now.
no protection used on either side.
And we don't know which one is gonna win
that charge check priority tie, right?
But a lot of trainers who are confident in their attack,
throw their attack first,
and you see a little bit of hesitancy
so far out in this near matchup.
Super power, though, is going to hurt Will
out of pocket sustain, and he does.
Powerful there.
We'll see a squint spot out into his room
while trying to go for his knight.
Now, met just as quickly by out of pocket's Corsula.
Both of these Pokemon very bulky,
taking a bit of time to charge up,
but already that Corsola throwing some shade at the Azumaril in this mid game matchup.
What I've been so impressed with Pocket on has been his team of predictions.
Excuse me.
He actually sent out that glaring Corsola against the Azumaril.
He's keeping that Clotsire in the back,
which means he's calling that it's not Clotsire from PvP David as the third Pokemon.
And I think that his call is going to pay off again.
But when they have getting that first protection off the side of Autopocket,
correctly showing up that play will keep in mind that there's not many Azumarils
In this tournament, usually, as Zermal is running play rough and ice beam, this one of PPP David is on Hydro Pump to hurt the Tinkerton just a little bit more, but want a catch here, but out of pocket.
He just did it again. He just switched in a Pokemon, threw a charge attack, on charge attack priority, and even if Zermal would have hung on, would have wasted its entire Hydro Pump out of pocket, playing out of his mind.
Keep going ahead and just coming in now with that clawed sire with a PPP pay, but the toky
kiss already has a bit of an energy advantage and these side shots are going to do a lot
of damage to another bulky Pokemon that has taken a feel.
Look at that super effective damage, almost bringing that clawed sire down to half.
This is tricky, right?
Because it's only 10 turns to each of the side shots for that toky kiss.
Meanwhile, 776 for the stone edges on the clawed sire.
The toky kiss has a clear pacing advantage, but it's got to respect these stone edges
these Stone Edges because it would do way more damage than a side-talking kind.
Hacing advantage, energy advantage, and shield advantage.
PVP David looks in a good position though.
Out-of-pocket was able to negate all the energy that the Zoomer was building.
Your Stone Edge is already ready on the side of Out-of-pocket.
Does it get the last protect shield from PVP David?
Does he want to keep this top decent game?
Content to let it go down.
Took his balls from the sky, and now we've got that Malamar coming back in.
Yeah. Poisonous, weak to psychic,
and the Malamar looking to melt the Clawed Sire
out of pocket, bails it out,
sends out his Galarian Corsula now,
but the foul plays are also going to hurt.
This Malamar has perfect coverage
for the remaining two Pokemon on Pocket's team.
If you David recognizing that even though
that Malamar is a bit low in health,
it can start putting in some heavy work
using that last protect shield
to shield up the Nightshade,
throwing from the Corsula.
We might see a side wave down
to have some energy to throw at that Clawed Sire
that's coming back in.
You see a shake of the head
of out of pocket as the next charge attack is reached.
Betrayed by its pacing, Claude Sire
such a mighty Pokemon that's just so slow.
In this meta game that's full of Pokemon like Malamar,
like Cantonyntails and Togekiss,
it's very difficult for Claude Sire to find an edge
unless it's already built up a head start.
PvP David taking game number one
off of the last North American trainer left
in the 2026 World Championships.
He just needs one more game to continue
on to losers round six.
If this team looks familiar,
it's probably because you've seen it play quite a few times
so far on stream, both by PvP David
and another trainer who he built the team with,
boom 20, made it into day number two,
but was knocked out of the tournament
by Koki Henshin from Japan.
Such an incredible run so far from PvP David.
I remember last year at the World Championships,
we saw PvP David and immediately dubbed him a rising star.
The next generation of PvP trainers in the Pokemon Go competitive community,
he's showing that he's still got what it takes as we take a quick look back at that game number one
and our trainers get ready for game number two.
I mean, I tell you what, it's in the name, right?
He's not just David, he is PvP David. He knows how to play this game.
And this first game against the North American International Champion is a good way to show your prowess.
Out of pocket already locked in his trio.
So again, if out of pocket loses this next game, his tournament is over and the last trainer from NA as you pointed out Amanda is eliminated.
QDP David wants to get everything right though. He's mulling over his options just a little while longer.
You didn't see a couple Pokemon in that game number one.
You didn't see the Quaxire or the Nysale, so QDP David could reach for some of those and pocket needs to adjust.
Both pocket takes a deep breath as both of these trainers lock in getting ready for game number two here in Losers Round 5.
We have that Licky Licky in the lead up against the quads are this is a regular
quads are not a shadow which we've seen many times in the past and one out of
pocket actual favorite Pokemon so maybe a little bit of a betrayal here on the
screen that's a big zone edge to start as well that takes about 35% or so of
that Licky Licky's HP pool but the shadow ball is going to be fired off in
return this will probably take about an equivalent amount in this matchup going
ahead and not using the protection of either one of these opponents just
continuing to charge up energy. Paxi will be able to throw its attack first
should it choose stupid. PBGP David recognizing you can tank the body
same goes ahead and just charges up a little bit more that he can actually
threaten the knockout with his next charge attack should there not be a
shield used by out of pocket stone edge going up and the pocket uses his first
protection. Yeah stone edge number two and it's looking like a bit of a rocky
road for pocket to start off this game. Number two, he throws the body,
so it gets caught on the zoom role. But that's actually very valuable
information. That's the first time pocket has seen a zoom role in this
matchup. And now he can adjust accordingly. They go ahead and stay in
with licky, licky, though, because he realizes he needs some chip damage to
get the job done. Last game out of pocket ended up getting all of the
energy that was going on to that is zoom role with his Malamar. No
Malamar to be found this game, but now is zoom role with quite a bit of
energy, not playing nice at all, playing rough into this Don Dozo, getting it as it connects,
and now just a little bit of water on water damage, which takes a while to get you neither
one of the targets of the Don Dozo, is going to really hurt the Azumaril with its very
typing as well as water.
Exactly, water is one of the most prominent typing in all of competitive Pokemon Go, and
it's been that way since the very beginning.
So flexible, so versatile, a lot of the neutral picks like Azumaril and Don Dozo are able
to hang with the best of them, even in a typing disadvantage.
Also, Pocket keeping that cross-seye in the back,
maybe he's calling that tokyo kiss again in game two.
Going ahead and just charging up a lot of energy.
Azuma faces quite slowly here, but even so, you see,
out of Pocket, shake his head a little bit
and see that so much energy on this Dundrozo,
even though it wouldn't threaten to knock out quite yet,
he doesn't want to lose it all,
throwing out that first into the Azuma,
no protection of use by PvP David.
One of the rare moments when you lose counts,
out of pocket such a talented player, but it is late in the day and he's been battling since the early
morning. Great catch by David as well to absorb this surf. At least he neutralizes one of his Pokemon
off the board for out of pocket. Well you can see out of pockets and that's perfectly fine. Let's get
that cragsire off of the board. Show me what else is in this. And then now the Totenkiss comes in.
It's very dangerous for out of pocket. A very low health licky. Licky with a lot of energy behind
its name, but the Clod Sire with no shields into a Totaku's. We saw that last game and it didn't
look too pretty. Yeah, this might not be easy for out-of-pocket to come back from. That second
shield does not get used here. P2P David still has not even seen the Clod Sire from out-of-pocket,
and we talked about pacing. That Clod Sire is super far behind, and look at the Totaku's. It's
already got seven, eight, nine, ten pecs to its name. Going ahead, just charging up a bit of extra
energy. You see, really Thompson trainers do this, even though they have energy, they're not throwing it
right away. They're building up even more. They're making sure that they're going to be able to throw.
PPP David knew he was going to win charge attack, so they're already throwing right before that stone
edge was available for Pocket. Well, honestly, Pocket might need to just poison Sting down. I don't
know if there's any other win condition. Out comes the enzimmeral. Doesn't have the energy for the
charge attack yet, but the bubbles are super effective. So Nedge will deal one damage even
Even though the shield comes up, Ken out of pocket,
poisons thing one more time and get the KO.
No, he can't!
A zoom rule!
Play rough, clutches it up.
Play rough, coming through here, no protection,
you'll slip on out of pocket side.
That clawed slayer was so funky,
but it is going down.
Now comes in, that licky licky trying to get
as much damage off as possible.
Wants to get able to get to one more,
so he can get to a body slam.
Will he be enough?
Oh my goodness, out of pocket, can't do it!
PVP David stays alive in the loser side bracket round five all of these games down to the wire there
If pocket was able to reach that body slim
He might have been a singing a different story of a PVP David calm and collected
Recognizing what he needed to do to oh sweeping to stay alive going to losers round six
What a run from out of pocket
He showed us the best yet to offer in these last few rounds
but the road finally came to an end.
Meanwhile, PDP David looking to carry that torch forward
as he answers, I believe Amanda into like top six.
I mean, we're getting pretty high up there.
We are slowly narrowing it down to see who will be performing
tomorrow on Championship Sunday on the main channel.
So don't forget that's where you can be watching these battles.
But you're absolutely right.
Out of pocket had a wonderful tournament run.
I hope he's so proud of how well he did
did because he started today on that loser's side of the bracket which means he came in
yesterday from that he's been playing so many games able to make it to losers round five losing to a
very talented trainer from the EU and unfortunately for North America the dreams of maybe another world
champion from the region has come to an end. I mean not once but twice taking that one turn switch
Throwing that Pokemon out and using the Charged Tech on the Cap-Tie to win it and get off that damage.
I mean, out of pocket. Mechanically, one of the best in the world and he proved it here in the world stage.
I agree with you, Amanda. I think that a lot of the trainers, maybe they think if they don't win, then it's a disappointment, right?
The standards are so high, especially for someone like out of pocket who has won regional competitions, who has won NAIC.
I feel like there's a risk that you think it's a failure that you made it this far, but it's absolutely not.
It's a massive accomplishment.
Let's go ahead and take a look at that accomplishment
because there's been so many trainers and a lot of them
we actually didn't get to feature online
just because there was so many trainers still in this
but throughout the day, little by little,
it's getting narrowed down to this.
We are in losers round six.
The winners of this will continue on to that losers
semi-finals.
It's gonna be so exciting.
Only a few matches left everybody.
And I'm telling you, if you've been following
our storylines, first of all,
Thank you so much, but if you have been you definitely want to tune in tomorrow on the main channel to watch the grand
Finals and figure out which trainer takes it all can't talk about grand finals without the winners finals first, right?
Look going through there
We got here tomorrow coming in playing up against
M. E. Weedle our only senior world champion
Can he do it again on the main stage for it?
We'll have to see and you guys will have to find out don't go anywhere a few more matches today though
and we're not going to slow down any time soon.
Next up, we're going to see Marto Galday taking on King OWT if I'm not mistaken.
That's going to be a really high match as well.
Very talented trainers.
We've seen them throughout the day.
Marto Galday, one of the most acclaimed players that we've had in Pokemon Go.
He's no stranger to the main stage, especially at the World Championships
and international championships, getting top placements at those.
But King OWT has only competed in a few tournaments this season
and has done extremely well at all of the proving how good he is,
knocking out so many good players left and right.
And that clutch win he just had during Henry and Lewis commentary.
Down to the water.
Oh my goodness, guys, after this live stream is done,
you got to go back and watch the Vaughn and check out that series.
It was insane.
See if you can do it again, though, because as you pointed out,
Marto's been on the big stage. He's been there, done that.
Can he continue his winning ways in Losers round five?
or excuse me, losers found six.
We are very deep into this bottom side bracket.
It's the winner of this matchup.
We'll continue on to the loser's semifinals.
They are getting ready to go,
so let's go ahead and take a little peek at the teams.
As you can see, not a lot of crossover between the two of them.
The only ones really that we can focus on that are the same
is that Shadow, Kanto, Ninetales, and the Tinkatun,
which has been quite prevalent not only in day one,
but also day two here in San Francisco.
Absolutely, and the question is, can these trainers find a fit for their signature Pokemon?
And lucky for us, both of them are flying types, that Altaria for Marta O'Galladay and the Fero
from King OT striking fear into the hearts of everyone that he came up against.
The student electorate has also been pretty good for him thus far.
I think that, yeah, absolutely. Both of these trainers have been piloting their Pokemon to great success.
It's not like they're just relying on three of them to do the job every single time.
The really digging deep into that utility of advocacy,
which ones are the best for these actual matchups?
What's fascinating as well is that I thought this matchup looked familiar.
Amanda, when we started today,
Marto took on King OWT in round one.
His Altaria conquer that shadow, Kingdra.
This is a rematch, everybody, and it's all the way in Losers round six.
So this is what we like to call a grudge match,
since this is a double elimination tournament.
If you're on that winner's side of the bracket,
losing your first best of three will knock you down to that loser side now
that they are both in this loser side bracket will King OWT have the wherewithal
recognizing what he didn't do maybe correctly in those first games maybe a
miss call that could really secure him into those losers semi-finals. Last time
these trainers competed we saw a lot of the suing electrode shadow canto nine
tails and Vero for King OWT and I believe Marto also brought his shadow
Kanto Ninetales, but he also paired it with his Altaria and Licky Licky.
So there's a lot of background to this matchup.
I think that changes the dynamics quite a bit.
I'm sure that when these trainers saw each other on the bracket,
they started to game plan almost immediately.
They said, okay, recall back.
What were the lines?
What were the tendencies?
How often did they fade?
What did they shield?
What did they swap?
All these questions need to be recalled.
And again, as we get later in the day,
it's already six o'clock here in California.
These trainers have been battling since the early hours of the morning.
Keep in mind too, the last time that these two battled,
those battles were extremely close.
So you're gonna wanna keep your eyes on the screen here
as we're jumping into battle number one
because these are gonna be fantastic.
Leading up, we have that Altaria up against the Malamar
on the side of King, OWT.
Neutral matchup to start us off.
Malamar with a slight energy-pacing advantage,
only 10 turns to each of the foul play.
Meanwhile, Altaria's got a muster of 14
Dragon Breaths for a Sky Attack.
As foul plays as snow, this part varies.
not going to be doing too much damage but actually still threatens a decent
jump for the side waves coming afterwards. Altaria going for his first
sky attack, didn't use a shield on the side of Marco Galdi and King OWT puts
up a shield for the first time. You're gonna see Malamarr light through fire back pretty soon here and as this
side wave damage adds up the foul play will start to threaten but Marco Galdi
trusts his Altaria, he knows his Pokemon can hang on through this next charge
attack and it absolutely does. Do we see a swap after he gets charged attack? He throws the
Blade thrower, just in case of the swap, I really like that blade.
Go ahead, dude, just a bit more damage.
And he knows that there's not a lot of health left on the ulterior either.
Doesn't want to leave a lot of farm work for whatever comes in.
And it's able to fast attack down, being one turn attack.
In comes the Tinketun for that first hammer swing.
Very tough for King OWT to lose shield and switch advantage early on in the battle.
Now we get the Tinketun year match.
Marko Galvin and King OWT, very close in terms of energy.
The Gigantun Hammer is going to get fired off by King first.
Going ahead, he did have one faster advantage there,
but Martial Galle has a shield of energy.
See him nodding as he correctly shielded up
that first Gigantun Hammer, now throwing his own.
They look a little, but they are pretty tough.
Now, Martial probably remembers that Fero
is a key part of King OWT's team last time they battled.
It's probably really tough to throw the bulldoze here,
because if you get caught on, you waste a boltload of energy.
Another Gigantun Hammer getting fired off.
Yeah, a bait is great when it lends a shield,
but horrible when it's not very effective against a Pokemon.
Mato Galded looks like he's not going to take that risk.
No protect shield remaining on King OWT's side.
Going to have to take this full course
as its hander slams down, knocking that Ticket Tum down
into the red.
Both Fairy-type Pokemon definitely weak,
but the Bulldoze and that one Fairy-Win advantage
is going to give King OWT the leg up here.
That Bulldoze pulls away the final shield,
Mato investing in the Ticket Tum.
What does Kikotan maybe Tiki Saito do?
He goes right to the Firo.
Go ahead, Kikotan, there is a ton of energy on that Kikotan,
so we have to remember that even though the defenses are lower,
this will do a major chunk of damage,
and we see Marto immediately pivot into that licky,
licky pull-up roll-out damage to finish off the Firo
and almost finish off game one.
I don't know, Amanda.
When that Kikotan hammer hit the Firo, it hurt me.
That was so much damage on the board,
and the shadow ball for Marto
is going to seal this up nicely.
That's game one, going to Markto from Argentina.
The hammer went down and the floor shook
and even the bureau felt it in the sky.
You know, I would say the hammer went down
and the feathers flew up
because that was absolutely devastating.
Markto recognizing the pressure point of the matchup,
shielding his taking time,
keeping it in the battle.
In spite of that one fairy wind disadvantage,
he was able to outpace, get to that game,
Tom Hammer, very well played.
I mean, like you said, the first time he's trained his battle,
It was right down to the wire every single game.
That was the cleanest game between these two
that we've seen so far.
Well, let's go ahead and take another look at it
as we see how much this Gigatonic Hammer
actually does to a Bureau, almost knocking it out.
Licky, Licky, going for a little tag team effort there,
securing the game for Marto Galday.
Keep in mind, this is the losers portion
of the double elimination tournament.
Marto Galday has won game away
from going to that losers semi-finals.
This is so tricky for King OWT.
There's so much bulk on Marto's team, deceptively a lot of bulk.
He's got to figure out a way to get past it.
And keep in mind, in that game number one,
we just saw that Licky-Licky came out basically fresh
when King OWT was barely limping along.
That was really tough in terms of matchup pacing.
It didn't feel like there was a realistic window
for him to win, but Amanda, he must be competent
because King OWT has already selected his team and locked in.
I mean, sometimes trainers end up trying to go for
a little bit of an energy advantage, right?
Sometimes that extra very win or two from the Tinkertown
could actually completely change a matchup being ahead.
However, Marto still had two shields to hide behind
by a KOWT only having one.
And with such a heavy impact move like the Tinkertown hammer,
just throwing one after another was too much to overcome.
Kisui and Electrode was very helpful
in their previous series.
KOWT could opt to start bringing that Pokemon
and try to break some of these shields
gained some leverage early on, but let's see what he's decided to do.
Game number two coming at you, everybody.
Hopping right into it here.
Looks like we have a great lead for Martial Galdi as King OWD puts his head into his hands.
He's going to do a quick pivot out into that fero and Martial Galdi is staying in for a little bit longer,
gathering some energy and wants to chip the fero that came in for perhaps dipping himself
or even staying in his matchup since he has shields to hide behind.
Disaster strikes early and the pivot out now into the licky-licky.
This is very, very tough for King Unibb.
There's a lot of pressure being applied across the board.
Dropec comes through, but Licky Licky is bulky enough to take at least two of these.
Digging out its tongue at the fear of saying,
alright, come at me, took it down, game number one,
and already another Dropec coming through,
actually forcing that first shield from Marco Galdé here,
as he doesn't want to get any more HP loss on that Licky Licky,
especially as he started gaining up so much energy.
One more roll out and a body slam.
There aren't many things faster than Peck to Dropec,
But roll out to Bison is just by one third and the pacing war is going to be won by that Licky-Licky.
The longer this battle goes on, it looks like another Bison coming through to secure the KL and maintain control switch.
You see, Kingo WT, he's thinking here, you know, he's still nodding, this is not over for him.
Yes, that was a horrible lead, but what we saw before, if Tika Dunn has a little bit of an energy advantage,
it can really go a long way and throwing right before the Licky-Licky even got off a shadow ball,
It's great for him because this is going to mean that he doesn't have to take any extra HP damage from that Licky Licky.
I mean that's a small loss for a huge upside right? The Licky Licky was already weak.
Now to get the dragons on the field, Kingdra and Altaria.
You've seen this matchup a couple times before that Kingdra being a shadow barrier will take a bit more damage from the opposing dragon breath.
But the swifts are much faster than the Sky attacks too. This is likely going to be a very even matchup.
the dual of the dragons.
One of them is from the skies
and one of them is from the water
and one of them has just taken the last shield of King OWT
as he picks up that Kingdra so close to another script
and so far away from another sky attack
on the side of Marta Galve.
Kingdra is the key, Marta is on the side.
Do I shield and try to farm down a little bit more
to make it easier for my ticket tongue
or excuse me, easier for my nine tails
or do I save the shield?
He chooses the latter out from the Kanto nine tails.
He needed to make some energy
and definitely shield this surf,
but it's all on that night tails for Marto at this point.
Going ahead, actually going for the heavy hitting surf,
recognizing that maybe it's not even good
to do a bait at this point,
but trying to force Marto Galdi
to actually throw some energy
to knock that Kingdor out himself.
The weather ball, normally Kingdor doesn't have to fear,
but there aren't any protect shields,
and we have a Tinketun in the back.
Marto needs two weather balls before Kingo WT
can get to the one bulldoze.
Well, Kano.
He's got both charge attacks loaded.
This might be it.
Go for number one here.
He is cooking as this first one goes through.
First one connects, and here is number two.
Marto Galdes advancing to losers round seven
at the World Championships, and King OWT's run comes to an end.
King OWT takes the crown off his head,
puts it on Marto Galdes as he continues on
into the losers' semifinals.
Marto looking calm, looking confident,
able to take King OWT completely out of the tournament,
as this is the person who King OWT was knocking the losers'
bracket to originally.
Think back, everybody.
Think back to what Marto said about LAIC.
He finished third overall.
A lot of trainers would have been content.
They would have been happy.
But he said, you know what?
I could have done better.
I could have played differently, more cleanly,
made less mistakes at the World Championships.
I'm sure that's his number one goal,
to make the fewest amount of stakes possible
and to fight as hard as you possibly can,
because he believes he's capable of winning it all
and he is about to knock on the door
being in the loser semis.
He's been a title champion,
but he has never been able to beat that world champion,
getting so close in Honolulu,
being so close time and time again.
I think a lot of eyes are on him.
See if he will be able to do so
because I also believe he's the last Latin America
trainer in this tournament.
And Latin America is the only region
that has not gotten the trophy yet.
carrying the torch for an entire region.
All the pressure on his back.
King LBT, very impressive run.
So much to be proud of as well.
Trainer from the UK.
I mean, that feral.
I don't think it was on anyone's predictions,
but it really exceeded all expectations.
I think many trainers had learned to fear the feral
after they saw it in the hands of a trainer,
like killing OWG, making it so far in the tournament
into losers, round six.
But of course, in his double elimination,
two weather balls were enough to seal the deal for Marto
as he continues on.
See the clap, the rise in the handshake there.
Great sportsmanship, as usual.
A competitive Pokemon go.
We're kind of known for that kind of thing,
but what an incredible performance by both players.
Sadly, King of WT will not be returning to the stage.
His tournament is over, but Marto battles on.
And he will be in that loser's semifinals.
We're still in losers' round six.
We just saw PvP David play a little bit earlier on.
He will be now up again blinking.
It's like you go to take a bathroom break.
You go to make some pop over and come back.
And you're like, is this still the same match?
It's funny, right?
Because the way our tournament bracket is set up,
maybe you played the first round of the day.
And unfortunately, you might not win it.
So you fall to that loser side bracket.
And you have to wait several hours until you go on.
But as we narrow down the field and the air gets thinner
in that loser side bracket, you battle more and more and more
often.
And you're right.
David had a long break that breaks over David you got to get back on the stage
So let's kind of go over the people who are still left in the tournament PvP David is one of them
He was knocked down to that loser side of the bracket by M. E. Weedle
Who is in the winners side who's gonna be competing in the winners finals?
You can see them all and I tell you what there's two UK people or two people from Europe still left there are two people from Japan
Still left as well as Marto Galday
That is incredible. A lot of trainers that have been watching our broadcast so far will recognize that fellow on the left
That's Contano the trainer with that shadow Goliath score, which honestly I gotta say that's a fan favorite Pokemon
I think everyone's been loving his gameplay with that and if that wasn't cool enough
He's got a shadow polytope paired next to it
I mean you talk about spicy teams being able to make it so far and you can hear the crowd cheering for him as he takes the stage
He's getting ready to play with arguably probably the most spicy interesting team that's left in this tournament.
It's so funny the personalities of these trainers we're going to see those on display as well.
Somebody called Katy Perry because we got hot and cold here.
You can see a lot of expressions from Kanto now.
I really, really enjoy seeing him wears emotions on his sleeve.
Meanwhile, PvP David, I mean, he's unshakeable.
Unshakeable. I don't think he ever goes above 60 BPM on his heart rate cool as a cute cumbers there
Ready to be able to play grand in that big camera. He knows that he's doing quite well
And I hope he's extremely out of this only a zoomer all that's been definitely been making it so far and then zoomer running hydro
pump at that
Well zoomer rolls gotta watch out for some
Electricity because that charge the bug has been inching along all the way to losers round six
It was a little slow, but luckily it caught up, and I think that Pokemon could spell trouble for this team from PvP David
I tell you what charge bug yes is a
Decent a zoomerall counter and of course tinket time we've seen how much a good kitchen hammer can do
Licky Licky, you know, it's it's a slow pacing game and it's slightly famous that Licky Licky
But that polygote the Clias score and the pangaro don't want to face that a zoomerall at all
Well, you're right. So it kind of forces Contono to bring that charge, but you at least bring a harder answer
because otherwise he's totally exposed to one of these staples of Great League PvP ever since the very beginning.
So going ahead both of these trainers getting ready, getting locked in, they're exchanging team sheets.
Of course in Pokemon Go it is open team sheets, so the trainers get to see which charge attacks are on each team
team and giving them a little bit of time to, you know, mull it over, decide what they want to bring into this battle number one.
Well everybody, let's see if we get some charge bug action. I want that Shadow Gliscor to hit the build at least once.
PvP David has been leaning a lot on the Malamar. He's very technically talented and his timing is perfect.
It's likely gonna bring that Pokemon as well. In spite of the obstacles,
sometimes you just need to rely on the Pokemon. You know the best and you play the best.
Now Chargerbug is something that you've called out and does really well against that Toga kiss on the side of PvP David
Can hit back for the zoom-out as well as some of the charge attacks to the Malamar
But with a quag sire on the team does that also maybe make you pause and decide if you want to bring it or not because yes
It is a water typing but with that ground typing as well
It indicates a lot of that faster type damage. I'm so glad you mentioned that I think a lot of times you see an obvious pick
You say, oh, this one Pokemon I have is strong into four out of six or five out of six or maybe all six
And you say, okay. Well, I'm gonna leave that Pokemon
Well, then it kind of becomes obvious to your opponent what they can expect and then you fall into a hard-catter situation
So there is a lot of prediction and reading your opponent and I think Henry said it really well backstage
He says some players play the team and some players play the player
And we'll have to see what these players want to do
to come to know is someone that we haven't seen so often before this tournament play,
but I think a lot of people will be recognizing and remembering his name after this, doing
so well.
This was the first year that more players from Japan got to compete in the World Championships,
and at the beginning of this day, number two, there were eight trainers from that region,
showing absolute dominance.
Still two left.
We are almost locked in, everybody.
PVP David already selecting his trio.
Contano drops the hands together and locks in as well.
Let's jump right into it.
Loser's round six.
Let's hear it for our PVP David fans
and Contano fans in the stands.
As we get ready to hop into the battles here,
we have a tinkertump up against a flag serve
at the very beginning here.
PVP David actually offered an ABA water team.
So, maybe do a little bit of spam.
Trying to find specific targets.
and now it's definitely going to out-haste that Tinketun
and throw this first aquatail.
Finding the charge stack priority there was finding a needle.
It was like finding a needle and a haystack.
What an odd time for both of these players to throw
with that Tinketun hammer.
Although it's not going to be super effective,
it is going to deal a lot of damage to that quacksire.
This is the problem with the Tinketun.
Even though it's not very effective, it still does so much.
It does as much damage as a super effective play rough does.
So I mean, at that point, it's, can you imagine how much damage it does to something that actually is weak to the Gigaton Hammer?
Wow, great swap out by Contano sending out his Polytoad to absorb this Aqua Tail from the Clash side.
Definitely gonna catch some resistant damage here and maybe get ahead on energy, but a counter swap into a zoomerall.
This is the best answer to that polytoad and you see Contano nodding his head, recognizing, okay, this is going to be a bit of a problem as neither one of the charge attacks nor the fast attack
It does that much damage to the Azumaril.
The only thing Fonto know has really going from
in this part of the matchup is maybe wearing down
that switch timer because Azumaril
places so slowly to its attacks.
I think a lot of trainers focus on the big,
sweeping, super effective attacks,
the one hit knockouts and that kind of thing.
But if you're patient, if you pace yourself
and you deal neutral damage or even a resisted damage
long enough, eventually you will wear down your opponent.
Polytoed is not dealing a lot of damage,
but it's running circles in terms of pacing
around this zoomer all. And now we look at that so much energy bank to want away
from two weatherfalls this Tinkerton swapping back in both switch timers are
up. PPP David letting this go through knowing it's not quite enough to knock
out and continuing back to that quacksire hoping to outpace or at least farm
down give him a pair of boots and a plow this quacksire is a farmer. It looks
tough from a typing perspective for Konto and O because he does have a shadow
Glyce for which does not want to take any damage from the opposing Glaxire so
his polytode needs to help his buddy out and take down this Glaxire for him. I
don't doubt that DPPP David wanted to use a shield here not because the
Glaxire does so well against that polytode but because he's got so much
energy here going two shields down in this match if you see him shaking his head
no saying oh that's not really where I wanted to spend that energy.
Contano's now coming out with a shield advantage, but down goes that poly world.
Exactly, there might be a gap in the armor here that Contano can exploit.
Suddenly he's up one protect shield to zero, and he's got a matchup where he can deal a ton of damage with his shadow glyscor.
Weather ball fire coming through here, no protect shield, get a hold on to that for the final moments.
Going ahead and just continuing to farm up a little bit of energy.
Sandtube acrobatics going for the heavier hitting acrobatics
because there's no protection, swipe and all the bubbles
getting that fire typing out of there.
Consorto just saluted that nine tails as he KO'd it with acrobatics
pure aura on the stage here and now he's going to outpace the quacksire
and this shadow fly score might just sweep PvP David in game one.
This is getting very close. PvP David came back in and he wanted that
Glyscor to expel some energy because Azumarul is in, but there's just not a lot of Elf up.
He's got to go for a complete bubble down, and he's not able to do so before that Glyscor takes out the team.
Wing Attack, Acrobat, Shadow Glyscor,
claiming that battle number one for
Contono, very impressive and I gotta be honest, and looking at the teams of three when they first appeared,
I thought Contono was at a huge disadvantage.
I mean I tell you what this player has made it so far for a reason these picks
might seem a little unique but in the hands of a trainer like him they seem
perfect for this meta even getting a polydote stuck under the zoomer not that
bad but then he came out of that matchup with so much energy. Exactly patience
pays off we saw that time and time again throughout this matchup even when it
looks pretty dire, Contano wasn't focused on what was going wrong.
He said, how could I make this matchup go right?
How can I gain leverage and gain an advantage and build some distance between
myself and PPV David?
And over time, he was able to accomplish that.
Even though PPV David had a very dominating point of the matchup,
he was able to knock out the points of that.
Holy to the able to get both of those shields off of PPV David's side.
But we're going to hop right into game number two, PPV David.
Can he do it? Can he pull back in what we call a reverse sweep?
Contono just needs one more battle to be able to continue on to the loser semifinals.
How are we going to shield this one up here?
Foul play with the O'Clyde, bit of damage to Shadow Gliscord.
It was his MVP in game number one, but Contono choosing a different route here in game number two,
builds to the acrobatics, throws the Sand Tomb and gets the shield.
We've seen Sand Tomb on Fortress and now on Gliscord.
It is an automatic debuff of the opponent's HP there.
And look, he's still able to make another foul play.
But at what cost?
There's such small help left on that guy.
So Glyscar just claps his little claws and says, no problem.
Well, the problem here now is that Consonant
has to farm down this Malamarch somehow
and get rid of it before it beats any more havoc on his team.
It's already killed his first Pokemon
and taken about 15% of his poly-toad.
Where the ball's not enough, either.
Peter P. David is confident.
Well, keep in mind it has now had its defenses dropped
a little bit.
So while that wasn't quite enough,
It's getting pretty close.
Does Contano want to end up using his protect shield?
Here's his Malamar is putting in a spot of work.
Absolutely, he does doubt was the Malamar,
but it definitely did its job as a zoomer comes in
to just start cleaning up all of this water or ice.
Yeah, such a clutch foul play there.
I think that's going to be crucial when we look back
at this game number two, weather ball from the polytote.
Polytote put in work last game,
but it's got a long road to travel
against this healthy a zoomer roll.
take a peek at the back lines that
Licky Licky versus the clap sign doesn't
really give either trainer a typing
advantage. Even though the PPP David
had to use that foul play on a very
low helpless board at the same point
and put him in a really good position
to line up their zoom roll against
that polytope as they both give it out
now to keep that match up for later
cracks are coming in against that
Licky Licky going for the heavy hitting
Stone Edge right away. Stone Edge connecting
into the Licky Licky. Stone Edge plus
Stone Edge plus Aqua Tail is not quite enough.
The two Stone Edges or Stone Edge and two Aqua Tail
in this matchup, gonna fire up the Shadow Ball in kind.
And this is one of the benefits of running regular
Quacksire.
You need every single bit of the two Shadow Balls.
Pick up the knockout here.
You can tank it says PvP David.
That's why I'm running the regular version.
Those rollouts aren't doing too much at all,
relying solely on the charge attacks.
Still surviving in the red to be able to now throw off
his own heavy hitting attack.
So this is also the thing with the question,
could it be a bait or is this the real thing?
This is the last protect shield.
Well, I think the question as well
is, do I try to farm down the quack, Sire?
No, instant pivot out into the Azumaroll.
This is a real question.
Can this polytone outpace the Azumaroll one more time
and secure a game two victory for Contano?
Well, I'm just keeping in mind, there was a really quick link
in the missing moment where that the Licky Licky
did not get knocked out.
They both pivoted into this.
So as the switch timers go, as you keep
throwing these water weather balls, it still might end up being enough to maybe catch a
swap. I don't know, at this point it's getting pretty dire for Contano.
Polly Toad hangs on by the tip of its tongue, maybe he had one more water ball, water weather
ball out, and it does against the Azumaroll. That is valuable chip, but Aki Sentimenta,
that Wiki-Likis around, but it is so weak. It's around, but let me tell you, now it's going down,
not even able to make it to that body slam.
PvP David tying up the serious thing.
I don't want to be counted out so quickly here.
I want to be going to those losers semifinals.
What goes around comes around.
That loss in game one for PvP David,
he returns it back to Consonel in game two.
We're headed to decisive game three everybody
in losers round six,
between two supremely talented trainers.
If anyone's looking for a team
that they want to play at their next regional competition
or maybe just keeping the go battle league snag three of these Pokemon and lock those in three of our most popular
Pokemon are on the teams, but it's kind of spread out
We have that Tinkertons and that Licky Licky on the side of Toronto
No, and we also have that night tails and Licky Licky on the side of
This middle matchup got very close to actually going for the stone edge
They're getting that Licky Licky nice and low and at giving them what he wanted here with that polytope onto the zero
is what really helps secure it for PDP David.
There's been so much water, especially on the side of PDP David,
and you know what we haven't seen a single time?
What?
Charger bug.
No Charger bug action from Contono.
Maybe he feels like it's too obvious to bring that one month to this matchup,
but eventually he's going to need to answer for the Azumaroll.
He got creative and he did it in game one.
Game two, he fell short.
What do these trainers decide to do in the most important games of their careers?
This is a big moment for these trainers,
because this is the go big or go home.
Whoever wins this, best of three, continues on in the tournament.
But since this is on the loser's side of the bracket,
it will be the end of the road for one of the trainers.
And their champion dreams will have to be put on hold.
So much on the line.
Honestly, this is nerve-wracking to watch.
But we're heading to game three.
One of the trainers is already locked in,
already decided and set the course.
Hopefully it's the right one.
The Contano is taking just a few more moments, making some final adjustments and trying to figure out what the right read is.
He's trying to read the waves here man, to read the seas, find his north star, figure out how he can win this series.
Yeah, water, water everywhere, but definitely not a drop to drink.
I would like to actually get them off of the field for how it happened right into game number three, decisive game number three.
This is the water type Pokemon that Contano was actually hoping to face up against
because these weather balls are doing much more damage to that quag sire than it would to the Uzoomurl.
And on top of that, the polytose pacing is way faster than that stone edge to the quag sire,
and the polytose is going to win that charge attack party tie when it does occur.
So this is definitely where Contano wants to see the quag sire matchup, especially with his shadowed cry score in the back.
Going ahead, not using the burst potential very early on, correctly shielding up the stone edge.
It matches like this. It's very hard to bait when you know that if the bait fails, it's not going to do very much damage at all.
Contano actually building up to the ice beam is heavier hitting, but guaranteed the knockout does PvP David recognize that he does not as it connects.
And actually, the Black Star goes down before we don't still look mighty healthy, but the zoom out coming in to stop up all that damage.
Ice, ice baby. That was a big knockout from Contano. I think that's the first ice beam he's throwing all weekend.
and it was a big one.
Water ball, excuse me, I keep saying water ball.
Water weather ball is gonna connect into the zero now.
Go on ahead and just make it a splash here.
Waiting a second, making sure this isn't going to be
caught in something where it wouldn't be very effective.
This player up will connect.
This quality will go down, but it has done a lot of damage.
Actually, it's not even going down.
Just now I'm coming in with a Gliscor.
And let me tell you Will, it's not often that you see
a Gliscor coming in to an Azumarole matchup.
I mean, my child's on the floor.
I'm not exactly sure.
Contano is cooking, but let's let him cook everybody.
Sand-tube into the Azumaroll.
Does it park the defense drop?
Yes, it does.
Keep in mind, this Azumaroll is not running ice-cream,
which is actually the attack that is super effective
and scary to that class.
Contano not even bothering to shield up.
He's got two very low health Pokemon,
but he's able to just go ahead,
give a little bit of extra energy,
and now double debuff the Azumaroll here
as PvP David doesn't want to use a shield at this time.
Excellent mechanical awareness for tubing attacks
and he's sand tuned, getting just a bit more damage.
So I want to make all the difference,
but out comes the Kanto Ninetales,
and Contano's been used to running circles around
his opponent with pacing.
This Kanto Ninetale, so it was way too fast.
Licky, Licky does a great job into that Kanto Ninetales
because both of the attacks are going to really chip away
quite quickly, but PvP David has two shields to hide behind,
and he's using that first one as Contano actually goes
for the heavy hitting shot of all the one
that takes more energy and time to get to,
because that's why he's got that weather ball here,
getting that last shot from PvP David.
Oh my goodness, and the Ember's not enough either.
Paulie's opening in so much work for Contano.
He's got a second water weather ball.
He's gonna fire that one off.
This is super effective damage.
You can see in his face, he says,
okay, I can't miss a moment of this.
I have to play so precise as this zoom roll comes back in,
not even able to take another weather ball here.
Does the Licky Licky have it or does PvP David?
There's still a shield in play, but he doesn't even need it.
Contano taking game three over PvP David, and Japan continues to ascend.
As he grabs there, he takes off his helmet, shakes his opponent's hand, and
he continues on into those losers' semifinals to Japanese players still left in this tournament.
What dominance they are showing here at the World Championships here in San Francisco.
If you would have told me at 6.30 at night on day two of the World Championships
a shadow Glidesport shadow polytail team would be this deep in the bracket I
wouldn't believe to not on my bingo card Contano is making us all believers here
as pvp David exits the stage his tournament run is over but what an
impressive performance it was absolutely pvp David is one of those trainers
where you don't hear so much from him but when you see him play you recognize
that this is a trainer to be feared this is a trainer with so much skill behind
his name. He's done incredible throughout this season. He's a great team builder. He knows his
matchups in and out, but in the end, knocked down to that loser side of the bracket by Emmy
Weidle and knocked out by this ice beam and Contono. That was the ice beam that started the
avalanche. Just after that, a cascade of charge attacks, swaps and plays is what elevated Contono
above the PvP David there. What an impressive series of events. My goodness, that was that
That weather ball water, such an effective charge attack.
Doesn't look that potent in terms of energy costs, but it hits hard.
Going ahead now, saving that shield for literally a rainy day,
and that's exactly what he needed it for.
PPP David had that energy on the play rough, almost had a hydropump.
And when there's a shield to hide behind and the zoomer rolls bubbles
are just going so slow, it wasn't enough quick-paced energy.
Contano taking it on to that loser's Sunday finals.
What a day it's been.
Again, this is just day two of the World Championships.
We have Championship Sunday tomorrow
on the main channel in the Chase Center.
It is going to be absolutely epic, Amanda.
We've covered some pretty insane battles,
but there are still more battles to come.
You know who's up next? Tell me.
Marto Galvez returning to the stage,
and he is taking on Contano, so you don't want to miss it.
They say every Pokemon is somebody's favorite.
We're testing that on the World Championships here in San Francisco.
I'm going to play some players.
I'm going to ask him who that favorite is.
Favorite Pokemon is Mewtwo.
I think I just like the way he moved, his style is kind of sleek.
And I enjoy playing with him.
And actually, when I catch one, I'm happy and excited.
I think everyone is happy when they catch a Mewtwo.
That is a powerful Pokemon.
My favorite Pokemon is my Lotech.
I just think it looks really nice.
I'm a little bit sad because when it's printed in cards, it's usually some kind of like walling defensive Pokemon
And that's not my playstyle, but I hope the one day I can play with my loading. So right now my favorite is actually Greninja
I've just loved it in the anime loved it since I was maybe like 10 years old
It's just a cool ninja Pokemon. That's it basically
Have we ever got to play a Greninja deck in the TCG?
the mega Greninja deck yeah, but I chose to
play festively this weekend.
Drutini, Dragonair, and Dragonite grew up on their original 151,
and I liked the fact that they swam and then eventually
could fly on the ice cream tube.
How long did it take you to get your Dragonite fully evolved
when you first played the game?
Before the Elite Four, for sure.
So we're talking about level six.
My favorite Pokemon is Drutinum.
I really like the two forms that he has.
And I like it because I played most books and it was a very fun deck.
And the Dua Tina was really good on that time.
My favorite Pokemon is Mega Manetric because he has a big hair
and he has a matte face when he gets Mega.
I'm over the best answer I've heard all day.
My favorite Pokemon has got to be Rayquaza.
I just think the Delta episode is really cool.
and I like it's a dynamic with the office.
My favorite Pokemon is Metagross,
and I'm wearing it here today, my first ever world.
Why Metagross?
That's just really cool, isn't it?
It's like powerful, it's smart, it's got a mega,
the shiny's really cool.
I'm actually using it in Champions, which is amazing,
because in the trading card game,
you don't always get to use your favorite Pokemon,
but now I get to do that.
So yeah, it's always been my favorite.
My favorite Pokemon is Spill,
because that thing is really cute.
And yeah, I have a whole collection at home.
Just all the cards.
How big a collection we talking?
Just like all, I have one of the eight,
and then I'm trying to get people to sign them,
but yeah, still working on that collection.
My favorite Pokemon is Oranguru,
and it comes back from a control deck with Pidgeotto
that was premiered at one of the World Championships,
and I continued to play that after and after,
and that was until Sort and Shields
where the new turn one rules came out,
and then that deck sort of went off.
My favorite Pokemon is Kairili,
It's because I play Unlimited 20 years ago, and it's very good to choose this.
I started to say Samurai instead of Oshawa, because I realized not enough people appreciate Samurai,
because he's on all fours, I guess that's the whole reason people are like,
oh, he's the worst of the line, I don't know.
You haven't played the Samurai, you haven't played, you haven't gotten him to level 100 at least 30 different times.
I think you might be the biggest time-wrapped
I've ever met, and I say that with nothing but love.
It's actually Zorua.
It is Zorua.
So I am cosplaying it as Eevee
because Eevee Merch is really easy to get a hold of.
Zorua, because I really like black and white.
It was the era that I grew up playing,
but I really did like the gimmick of, like,
transforming it into a different Pokemon
and switching out and being able to basically trick your opponent.
My favorite Pokemon is Ditto, because he is the biggest reminder that you really can be and do anything that you put your mind to.
So there we go. We've met some players. We found their favorite Pokemon.
And now it's time for you to think, who's your favorite?
There were thousands of players this season competing to get a chance at the World Championships.
over 300 competed and we're down to the final four.
It's a 2026 Pokemon Go World Championships
and we have three matches left.
I'm Kaila Peng.
I'm Joe with 2-0 butters and we're here to close out.
Day number two to find our top two players
for Championship Sunday.
Over these next 90 minutes,
we're going to find out who is going to be
in the chase arena tomorrow on Championship Sunday.
We have two trainers from Japan remaining,
one trainer from Europe and one trainer from Latin.
First off, we have the Loser Semis, Marto Gaudet versus Contono.
Contono with the Spice Picks, the Shadow Glace Score, and the Shadow Polytoad,
making it all the way to the end. Of course, against Marto Gaudet, a five-time champion,
an international champion, a fifth place world placement, and a third place as well.
Can he go from fifth to third?
Now to first here at 2026 Pokemon Go Worlds.
They're ready on stage, so let's get these losers semi-started.
Let's go.
Kotsunoh in his first ever World Championship
has made it into at least a top four finish.
I want to say he's a rookie, but is at least his first time
on the stage, on the World Stage this week,
against a veteran in Marzo Galde.
But Consonant has been no stranger of creating the upsets all tournament long.
He has chosen Martial Gaudet to have a chance to make that Luscious final.
And remember to get to this point, he actually had to go through a Dondozo.
And that Dondozo was protected by a Clawzirer.
Clawzirer, excuse me.
Now it's not.
So maybe we could see some more charge above.
Yes, of course, there is that shadow came from Night Tales.
And that there is the Atari up on the side of Martial Gaudet.
but there is no clear protection for that D'Andoso like there was in that first matchup.
But D'Andoso once again looks really strong against Contrano's team.
And Contrano actually ran the same exact team in PJCS,
a tournament that qualified him for World Championships.
Last year only went three and three, but also brought the polytode.
Probably one of his favorite Pokemon as you see the blush on the desk
and he's found a way to make it work.
a Pokemon that I don't think anyone else in the tournament
has really decided to even think it was even meta-relevant.
He might be the only one in the tournament
to have even used the Polytoned,
but it has shined in so many moments
when other water Pokemon have altered.
And it really has been the story of those water Pokemon,
to be able to counter that Shadow Kanto Night Tales,
just like Dondozo has been doing all tournament long.
Dondozo has been one of the heroes.
It's definitely been the MVP and hero for Marto Gaudi.
Remember that moment where he was faced against the Lapras
and he was able to out fast attack a Lapras using a neutral side wave
with a resisted waterfall getting three of them off.
Marto Gaudet could not believe it.
He couldn't believe that he's still in the tournament.
And now he has taken advantage of that opportunity.
He's made it all the way to the Loser semis,
an area that he has been before
because he has been a third place finisher.
But can he get into that coveted top two?
And Marto Galdave, 22, he got fifth place.
one spot away from a trophy in that top four.
Goes into 2020 for his second ever world thing.
You know what?
I just want a trophy.
I want one of those trophies.
He gets that third place trophy.
But this time around, you know he's raised the bar.
He wants more than just the third place trophy.
He wants more than just a fourth place trophy.
He wants to win it all.
And there's only so few chances
that a lot of players have in the career.
So he even gets to this point.
And Mark Gaulding has made three separate top flies
in world changes.
Absolutely incredible consistency on the biggest stage.
No shy, no stranger to the stress,
to the situation where he has to raise Rice himself
to the occasion.
But Kansano, the dark horse,
the big that probably most of you didn't expect
to make it this far.
One of many wall buyers from Japan,
but he has proven that he is much different
than any other competitor here.
And he's running it with the spiky team,
a shadowed wide score, shadowed volatile.
I mean, everything I've seen in this fight
pretty much except for the Tinkenton and Wicky Wicky.
Well, there's not that it just has the spice on this team.
How many times does he have that Shadow Blight score
and Shadow Polito in his team of three?
So how is Marto Gaudi going to be able to deal with that?
But it looks like we're getting these losers semi
started between Marto Gaudi and Contono.
We got the leads.
It is going to be a Shadow same blight,
which has that dark subtyping versus the Tinkenton.
You don't love that matchup.
So stays 12 inches on Dozo.
No clear answer.
So Contano is just staying in the matchup.
Michael for a chip and then Mike Tinker,
serve versus only neutral damage.
As Contano is going to throw the kickers on hammer,
resistance damage still hits quite hard.
As Margell, they respected him saying,
you know what, maybe he didn't bring the charge plug in.
It's not charge plug in the back,
he has play into everything.
Contano tries to throw for the catch,
ends up Margell, they started being patient.
They did throw right away.
Doesn't allow Contano to just get the free roll out there.
Contano now coming in with the ball.
Hey, likey, likey.
Caleb, did he just get the shield against a Dondozo with a Gigaton Hammer which is resisted
into the water typing?
That is shocking from Marto Gaudet because we know Dondozo is so bulky.
He wanted to keep it healthy enough, I believe.
And there's the swap!
And it is the swap on the Shadow Ball!
That is going to be double not very effective for Marto Gaudet and it tickles Licky Licky.
A lot of energy, completely wasted.
Even Kostino has to give the respect nod to Marshall Galday.
What a beautiful guest from Marshall Galday.
And yes, it might be a weird shield,
a shield of resistant gigaton hammer,
but that's how good gigaton hammer is.
And we see so many of our world's better shields
that resist and move in so many situations.
Now comes a swap back over on Kostino.
Now, Kostino gets a matchup.
He wants gigaton hammer,
should be closer than the gopher KL
and drops his first shield on the shadow ball.
And it looks like he was trying to swap on that body slam,
but no dice there.
He's going to be able to get that shadow ball, but cut off from the kids on hammer.
No, actually, Contono is just going to save that energy, endure the shadow ball and try
to bank some extra energy.
Do you have the swap available?
Here's the swap.
There is no combo play available, but I believe you can easily waterfall down.
You're going to be able to take this resisted meteor match, and does Contono have his switch
available?
Switch is not available yet.
This is going to get a lot of value.
Almost at the serve, goes to it, but the kick is on hammer, is reached, and multiple balling.
for the tank two gigatomber, a gigatomber drawing a lot of energy
away from the Tinkerton.
If you are now maybe in a form down range,
but also know has to switch available,
trying to go for the positive.
The only Pokemon he has left, his signature Pokemon,
can it do it into the save line
and the half help Ricky Ricky.
Here comes save line.
It is a head on energy floods.
The weather ball is gonna be reached before the train punch
is there before the boosted defense is possible.
That's multiple, the goal, the decided show.
He knows what it is, but at this point,
wants to preserve the health on the save line.
And that's so useful for those four fast attack users
that are able to get to a charge attack.
Because he was a half a turn ahead, Marta was,
because of that flop.
But then he came in and cut that off with that weather ball.
Here comes the drain punch, which
does raise the defense from that shadow save line.
He used the first protect shield in order
to take less damage on this weather ball right here.
Let's see how much damage it does to remaining health.
The next weather ball will be able to knock off.
There is one protect shield remaining.
and that one is down for Contono.
Contono going to shield us up,
trying to preserve his final ball.
He's just two separate catch opportunities.
Doesn't try to go for one.
There is still the licky licky in the back,
but even March with all the catches,
the weather ball, it's still a decent,
solid situation for Contono being.
But no, Contono throws it against the save line.
Does save my hand, handle it.
No, does not end up the licky licky,
but there's no help left on the remaining ball.
Come on, Contono.
And he was trying to swap out
to maybe transfer that damage and keep that weather ball.
He was unable to, there are two Pokemon remaining.
The energy drive body slam is able to be reached
and it's probably not gonna be enough to knock out Mardo,
but it's gonna be so close here.
Mardo needs to knock out both Pokemon.
He's gonna do one more round.
No, he actually already has the double body slam
and that's gonna be enough.
Gonserno doesn't have to fold those yet.
Maybe hoping that the body slam is not there
for the fact of fact, but I think he knows
that's Mardo Goldy gets one more win.
One forward will bring him to his highest finish ever at World of Top 3,
when you know he is hungry for more.
Seems like fate is on his side.
Every two years at the World Championships, he just gets better and better.
In 2022, he was fifth.
In 2024, he was third.
We are now in 2026.
If he continues that trajectory, he will be our world champion.
But of course, he has to get through Contuno first.
And remember, he is also on the loser's side of the bracket.
So he needs to win this next matchup to ensure he gets to that Loser's finals,
which will be a Best of Five series.
And that would be quite the storyline if he does make that every other year,
every, you know, true jumps in placement.
That is just a fantasy, almost a fairytale, even that players can't even dream of.
But that is the reality that Martin Galday possibly lives in.
He knows how much pressure is on the line, but a player that plays so credibly with his team building is not going to go down without a fight.
And remember before he had issues with the Dondozo in game number one and went down.
But then he made his adjustment so he was able to land his shadow polytode into the Dondozo, make up energy and close with that Pokemon.
You said it's his signature Pokemon.
I agree with you in this tournament because often times he is closing with that Pokemon you have seen it in so many series where he's able to
Bank extra energy or keep that in the back with either an energy advantage or a shield advantage
Can he use that MVP Pokemon against Marto here?
You even have the ice beam that's double super effective against the Altaria
It's an incredibly safe Pokemon against Marto's team
So it could be the story of the water type and game number one
It was Mardo, but game number two, it could be that shadow polytone.
And Maltregolde, he knows there's a lot on the line as well too.
If he loses this game, Momentum has completely stopped and shitted over Ponsonot.
Can he win this game?
Match point for Maltregolde, and it's going to be the Tinkertown into the stable yet again.
And this is not a great matchup, but he doesn't have the D'Angozo like he had before.
And instead of Seiswap and D'Angozo, he Seiswaps into a shadow Kanto Ninetales,
but it is met by a Licky Licky, which is one of the better neutral answers to that shadow Kanto Naito.
In almost all of the shield scenarios that are neutral, Licky Licky does come out on top.
And you're going to land the first edge ball, meaning that the next one can threaten a knockout.
Good force possible in a shield position, but you see so many Licky Licky players not even shield this,
knowing that so much value is there with energy lead and shield advantage.
Watched all the forming up, even more.
Doesn't even throw a move before the second Shadow Bolt.
He's dropping both shields on the Shadow Ninjas,
trying to do everything he can to flip Switch Abandoned.
And he got the extra Invert there as well,
because Contano was just trying to get that damage off
before having to use the Protect Shield.
Now, he's just gonna use both of his Protect Shields
in the backline, maybe for his signature Pokemon
in that Shadow Polytoned.
Will we see the Shadow Polytoned come in?
Yes, it is the Polytoned, but there is double Energy Bolt,
and he's making such a risky move.
He instantly no shield, and it's not very effective.
The biggest no shield of Contra, no career.
And for Contra, they full-send.
Again, no shield, where the full face.
Nerves of steel for Contra, as he lets two fire attacks through.
And Marshall was expecting to protect shields.
Instead, he swaps out into the same line.
I don't think he can believe this.
Ice in his veins is Contra though, as he lands on the right ball,
Doing half the health off the save-watch,
and just at least allows Contno to leave with a weather ball
now comes in with the dominant matchup of Tinkertunk.
Having to go for a favorite down.
There's still the Naito in the back,
and the rich Liggita hasn't been shown yet.
But, energy of Saita can be absolutely devastating,
as we've seen how strong it is.
And if you let another great punch,
no judgment, do a lot of damage,
so Contno, one of the boldest,
means he doesn't get nearly as much health remaining.
But he knows Naito has energy.
He knows there's still a third ball on the back,
You have to do everything you can to keep this non-jail selfie.
He just didn't want to get that Tinkett on low enough to get
Inbert down, so that's smart to throw the bulldoze there.
And now giving up a protect shield to have...
No, you actually can't get back to a switch-shiver.
So, gonna throw this bulldoze.
There is no swap. Yes, there is a last second swap.
And a full roll-out comes through.
Maybe that is the last-inch effort for Marto that he needs.
He is behind in this battle.
Can he avoid a debuff?
No, he does get debuffed.
That debuff is huge because it's Tinkett on Hammer.
Mike right in a KO, Marshall Calde doesn't get the body slam off.
Let's see how much he's going to do.
It's going to bring the licky, licky very low on HP, but it hangs out for a split second
and gets the body slam off.
Cardinal again, no shielding, saving the energy for the polytope to clean out
and force a potential game three.
He was maybe expecting to swap there into the polytope.
There was no swap and now the polytope does have energy.
There is no protection remaining for Marshall.
And Kossano is able to tie up this series.
Locked into this game, Kossano down a point,
one game away from elimination, and no shields,
two potential energy balls on the following zone.
The confidence, the guts, that's what it takes
to make it into the top four of Worlds.
And that's what's gonna need to take to make it
to Chase Center on Championship Sunday.
Plays like that because if those were energy balls,
he could be eliminated right now.
Casano giving it a little stretch knowing that this could be his final game of the tournament, but he's not acting like it
He's saying you know what I got more in the tank. I'm ready for that. I'm ready for the upset but Martin's all day
He's been in so many illumination matches in his career
He is not face-diving well the story of this series so far has been the safe walk Pokemon a game number one
Don Dojo was so effective as that safe walk game number two shadow canton I killed was the safe walk
But he gave up both of the protect shields against the opposing Licky-Licky.
And with that shadow polytone in the back, and also calling all the baits as you can see right here,
it just wasn't enough. He didn't get as much value in that game number two with that safe swap,
with that bold strategy as he would have hoped for. So does he make an adjustment now?
It worked in game number one, the safe swap. It didn't work in game number two.
Now, does he go back to D'Odozo? Or maybe he's going to try to catch his first lead.
And Consonel, wow, we got to think about this, right?
And Martial Gole, he has two chances for him to end the ball.
Two chances to go straight into a top three.
And part of it, it's got to sit with you.
It might mess with you as well as, you know,
you are just two buttons away from making it.
But the guts from Consonel, so prevent that from happening.
Can't keep a man awake at night.
Martial Gole doesn't want to make them a sink again.
For this third and final game.
Let me hear it, both is going to be the final match in Marshall Galday and Contano.
And here comes the shiny Pecorro.
It is dark type on dark type here.
One has a fighting subtype, the other has a ghost subtype.
So this is kind of a neutral matchup, but you will take super effective damage from this drain punch here.
Here comes the Night Slash into this Shadow Saber.
I don't expect the protection.
Actually, yes, protection early on showing that maybe he's going to try to invest into this Shadow Saber.
And guess the drain control this is super effective damage, but you can't really shadow call down after it
Maybe scared that it would be a close combat dip, but instead that's not the case
Shadow calls are starting to add up and possible building up to a close combat
Mark Gauley, does he decide to spend two shields? Wait throws up really weird trying to didn't expect Mark Gauley to throw it by the way
And now Mark Gauley calls a tough position going out to let this move go without having to spend two shields right off the bat
From bad to worse here. This is not very effective
You can't hang on but it was charged attack priority as you mentioned at least the stable like is boosted up
It has plus two on its defense right now because of those two drain punches here comes the licky-licky
At least you are gonna get to a foul play. You probably want to throw the foul play
That's a smart play from Arnold Galli knowing that one foul play does more damage than a drain punch
Even though the drain punch is super effective and boosting the defense at this point doesn't want too much as you're close in on
KO range no matter what at this point and constantly on the spot and just possible gets the catch on the dojo
So gets the water ball through as well.
A good solid position for Maltryk-Galdi as he is still safe to save what for catch and maybe a play later.
But he fades out of Paulitone.
That was the strategy right there.
He knew he had to pivot eventually to bait out that shadow Paulitone.
He is down a protection here.
Here comes the outrage into two protect shields.
Here's the shields.
Cotterno making all the shield decisions correctly in this match of a Maltryk-Galdi.
He resists all this entry.
Not out of the gets.
The land that outrage could have been massive.
And if he can get that second protect shield
and get this polydote in range of energy ball,
he can close it out with that Shadow Kanto Ninjutsu.
Remember, he does have that third Pokemon
for a sacrificial swap available as well
in that Shadow Sableye.
It's not very effective.
It will take two weather balls at least from this range
to take out this Dontozo.
You do have to switch available.
Does he try to make it into the Sableye?
No, it is right before the outrage.
There is the perfect timing.
And actually, he protects shields on this weather ball
to try to hit the outrage, but Contono could switch into his lick-lick.
He's a decent come and he catches the bodice, a huge place from Marshall Galvey banking the energy for Vader and
Contono trying to make the comp play, not going to get it yet.
There's still a shield though on Contono's side, it's kind of tough.
However, any damage shown in Licky Licky is fairly inconsequential because in the weather
boss where you really need to watch out for it.
And here comes the shadow ball, Marshall Galvey.
He's not feeling this one.
He doesn't think he's in a good position, but he can still overrun this matchup and get energy for the auto for later
And remember he does have that attack bank in the back and there is a protection remaining
That was on charge attack priority. The problem for Marzo of throwing charge attack priority is it means if you protect shield in Contono
You're gonna be able to register this attack and knock out the night sails and there's no way Contono can knock out both Pokemon
It just doesn't have to reach.
And do you believe in the underdog stories?
Champions can fall in what you get with them.
How much energy does Paulie Tone have?
What if he gets to a surf?
Can surf be enough?
Does Paulie Tone have enough?
How much energy is left on the Paulie Tone?
What is enough?
Much of what's going on.
Coming back down one takes a two-one victory over Martial
Galdi to find a top three finish in his first ever world
championship.
the reverse sweep just as he did earlier on in the tournament.
He went down to Don Tozo in game number one,
but then battled back to come up on top,
and now he is advancing to the Losers finals.
He is top three here at 2026 Pokemon Go World,
but I believe there is something going on.
I don't know if Marto is trying to point out something
to the judging staff that might have occurred
in that decisive game number three.
Yeah, I believe the request is there was a one-turn lag when he came in with nine tails
So that could be crucial right because I think he had back-to-back weather ball
So Cosno did shield that are not allowing him to throw both of them right because he was behind the term because that will take a look
And you know the judge will take a look and make a fish a wooly on them
But either way what a close back and for them what a series between these two and because it's so close
I completely understand trying to go to the judging staff here because I saw that moment of frustration
from Marto as well. It was when that Licky Licky was able to get to that
Shadowball energy a little bit before then Marto thought would be possible if
he didn't come in a turn late and then we do know that Marto did throw on charge
attack priority as well into that Licky Licky maybe could have had another
charge attack in the back there it was just so close in the endgame literally
just one turn away from the surf as well so it was a game of inches we're gonna
to see exactly what happened.
The infraction was, but what a series so far.
What a series.
And again, that game too was absolutely wild.
The no shield calls from Consonant.
Yes, he had two shields remaining,
but two shields he could not sweep
the entire remaining three Pokemon of Martial Galday,
but he just called it.
All right, let's take a look right here.
So at the point at which he might have lost a turn,
it's a little hard to see on the slow motion.
I'm gonna have to use low system from you. Let me put on my glasses.
Professor butters is in town. All right, let's see here. Yeah, I think I'm going to speed this
actually a little bit easier to see and
a little bit hard to see actually here but all right in comes the nine tails one two three four five six
That's the moment of frustration for Marko there. That's for sure.
Two, three, four, five, six.
I put on my glasses. I put on my glasses.
Yes, yes. What is your, what's the information that you deduce from this replay?
You know, I was spending too much time counting the nine tails.
Can we run it one more time so I can now flip to counting the Licky Licky?
Run it one back one more time.
All right, so now let's count the Licky Licky.
How many rollouts does the Licky Licky get off?
All right, so the Licky Licky gets one, two, three, four, right?
Or did I double count you got the slow motion?
No, it was okay. I mean control ends up throwing a bad time, right? Like that's essentially what happens
Okay, so the ember comes through I I mean I'm not a judge. Yes. Yes, and and obviously no one at home is either
Well, I should make some of you at home. Oh, but yeah
But I mean this ember ends up sneaking through which is correct because he threw on bad timing right to get the
Yeah, but shouldn't you sneak through and get your seventh?
Because four times three four rollouts. Yes at a three turn fast attack four times three is twelve
Yes, plus one for the charge stack exactly and then on the other side
There is a two-turn fast attack, which is ember time six, which is also 12
So he should have been sure got he should have been at his 12 at the same time as the licky
Licky's 12th and then when you throw at the same timing a fast attack goes through which would give him his 7th
So maybe that is exactly what's happening there. He got six embers where he should have got seven alright putting glasses away now
All right, all right, fantastic math there from Professor 2O Butters.
As we see the judges are explaining the situation, we'll keep you all updated on this.
I mean, most importantly too, doesn't make a difference in the outcome.
It's the most important question, even if there were any lost turns.
That was a really close one, so potentially that could be the case, but we will all keep you updated.
All right, well, I wouldn't be too upset if we saw another one of these.
It has been absolutely epic.
I actually want to go back to that moment that you're talking about a little bit earlier on those no shields because I don't hate the play from Mardo
Because I believe a shadow poly toad is a pretty bulky Pokemon. It could take one energy ball
So you need to throw two charge attacks to duck it out anyway
So you might as well go for the bait on the weather ball because you're gonna also need to have to land an energy ball
And then once he didn't shield it you're thinking okay. There's no way he double no shields because he's in energy ball range now
but then he did it. So I don't blame the play for Mardo. I think that is a pretty
reasonable action. It's just crazy that Contano called it. Yeah I mean and also
like I think that's a great bait too right your opponent's got two shields. Yeah it's a great bait.
And even if you're right it might not one-shot KO because it's not you know it's not a
mudboy it's not water ground. Yes. That's double week to it. But it's still a shadow
water type and it's still going to do a lot of damage and that's a lot of damage
mitigated if the no shields came through. As it looks like the judges are
things to the players. We'll keep you all updated on the final result here as it looks like players are still discussing a little bit.
But yeah, what a series so far. What a torment run from both players.
I don't want to understate how much is on the line here, right? In terms of prizing, also in terms of having the opportunity to move on to the Losers finals
and then potentially to the Grand Finals to be able to participate in the Finals at J-Center.
Yes, and eventually could be the world champions still because we have seen multiple times the world champion come in on that loser side of the bracket or first week.
We play here reset the bracket and then able to win it all.
So yes, we are going back to see what exactly happened here.
I mean, they're looking it over because there are there's so much optionality in a Pokemon go in game that any little difference in energy generation can change so many things.
things and you really have to try to theoretically think of what could be those alternate scenarios.
There's multiple Pokemon around. There's multiple energy pools around. There's different health
amounts. It is really complicated. That's why it's so hard to play at this top level because
you have to react and think about all the possibilities in split seconds. Definitely. And we counted it.
Again, well, I counted again and that was indeed 6th Ember just like you said earlier, right? And
and 12 should have been the seventh ember,
especially when Contano decided to throw that shot of ball.
And I think the most important thing is,
does it make a difference, right?
And we have the head judge on the floor as well,
just make sure everything's going correctly.
I mean, this is one of the closest matches,
one of the most important matches as well.
I mean, every match is more, but on this level,
there's so much as they can.
We want to make sure every call is done correctly.
All right, well, remember, they are tied one-to-one.
that was the decisive game number three.
So whoever does win that, which of course,
the only possibility is it's either Contono winning the game
or there's a rematch.
So it's either gonna be Contono moving on
to the losers finals or they will rematch
that decisive game number three.
I mean, we've said it so many times
about what's on the line here,
but I just wanna go back to their journey once again.
We focused a lot on Mato Gaudi, of course,
having when the year ends in an even number.
He is dominant at the World Championships,
but I just want to give out a shout out to Contono,
getting this far in potentially even third place
with an insane team composition of a shadow guy
score, a shadow polytoed, a charger bug,
and a shiny pangoro.
That is no small feat, even in a widespread meta,
like we have at Pokemon Go Worlds,
to do this at the top level against the best trainers
in the world is absolutely incredible.
All right, well, we'll have an update for you all
very, very soon.
And like you said, what a performance,
really from both trainers as well, right?
Martin Galdi one of the best players in the world,
but even the best players in the world can be beaten.
And we've seen that in so many of these,
so many of the matches throughout this week.
And Martin Galdi has really stood above the other players,
the other previous champions,
the other international champions
to make it three separate times into the top five.
I, there is no player that's ever done that before.
There really isn't.
I was going to say there might be,
but I just thought of there really isn't.
And in five years, make top five at Worlds,
three out of the five of them is absolutely wild.
And he didn't even, he didn't even play in the second Worlds.
So, so that's three out of the four Worlds he went to.
He's gotten a top five, absolutely wild.
And he didn't even have a team before this.
Until the day before he's, he's had to copy someone else's team.
And I'm genuinely not trying to pat myself on the back here
by picking Mardo, who are my most likely trainer
to make day number two.
But there are those trainers that live up to the moment.
And Mardo's one of them.
Three out of four world championships
with dominant performances.
These are boys on that list.
I know he got eliminated on the loser's side.
But what a run he had against the top 300 trainers
on the planet.
And he is the reigning champion.
And then the gear before he got fourth place.
So that is just ridiculous.
I'll actually even give a shout out to a trainer
that's not at this year's world,
but Lurgen Rocket is actually one of those trainers
in my books too.
He always performs well in the world championships.
That's right.
And I mean, yeah, and just what again,
our reigning world champion,
obviously won't be the world champion this year,
but three years straight,
only he's going to go on the three worlds,
made top cut in all three, made day two.
And again, top four finishers and two of them,
obviously one of them being his world championship title
is absolutely huge.
and multiple they definitely in the conversation of one the greatest players of all time in our circuit and that just adds even more emphasis on how impressive a run.
Contano is to be go toe to toe against someone that impressive in his first ever World Championship.
It is truly incredible and also shout out to the Japan region as well had eight trainers coming into day number two out of 32 and now out of the top four there are two standing.
So 50% left are from that region of Japan.
And still with the opportunity to have a Japan
versus Japan grand finals tomorrow.
That is all a possibility.
And that would be absolutely wild.
Before this, even the,
I think the highest machine player from Japan ever
was Preston Angels back in 2022.
And now both Kansano and Hiromaru have done that.
Had a clip set even, right?
And one of them will definitely eclipse.
Well, no, actually, I shouldn't say that.
That's actually not true, right?
That might not be the case.
But they both, or one of them at least,
have tied that, right?
And Contano might be able to tie that as well,
or go even further.
All right, well, we're still waiting
to find out what the decision is.
But I just saw Marto get up and shake hands with Contano.
So that likely means that our winner and Contano
just joined the top three at Pokemon Go Worlds.
All right, and the final conclusion there is
it was inconclusive, the one,
losing that one turn was inconclusive to the end game,
so the PogChamp can still finish off the nine turns,
I think, even if the turn was lost,
which we saw there too, right?
So again, that's a really important factor,
even though the turn is lost, does it impact the end game?
And we had the chance to do the push extensively,
and that was the conclusion.
So a great matchup and a great run from Walter Galdi.
One of the greatest, another top five finish
at World Championships.
But it's all about Katsuno and his first ever
World Championships as he has wanted that top three finish,
which means that at least one of these remaining
Japanese players will eclipse Crescent Angels' run back
in 2022 and get at least a top two,
maybe even becoming the next world champion.
and Contono does advance.
Congratulations, one of the spiciest teams ever
to advance this far in a Pokemon Go World Championships.
He is making history as we celebrate history.
30 years of Pokemon, 10 years of Pokemon Go,
and now in our fifth Pokemon Go World Championships,
it is just absolutely incredible what he is doing
to be able to bring this team to that level.
And I want to shout out Marto once again.
He is always making trophy moves at the World Championships,
and he did it once again.
And he locked in another world trophy.
What an impressive feat from Marto Galte.
And you know what?
These battles have been incredible, Butters.
Best of threes are greats.
But you know what's better than a best of three?
Best of five.
That's what we have the rest of the way.
Yes, we have a best of five for the winner's finals,
and then we'll have a best of five for the loser's finals.
So we have hero Maru in the finals, winners finals against M.E.
Guido, M.E. Guido going for his second ever World Championship title.
The first in the planet you ever possibly achieve that if possible.
But hero Maru also in his first ever World Championship looking to pave his own legacy.
And of course, Contano, waiting in the wings, waiting to lose the finals with the shadow polychord,
with the shadow cry score.
You know, he's not scared and he's going to be watching the squint of shot to see any strategy to get picked up as he awaits to see who he's going to face off.
And in me, Weedle is one of those rare selective few in Pokemon Go championship series that has that trifecta has a world championships has an international championship and has a regional championship as well.
and he's on a similar every two-year trajectory
that Marto Gaude was on
because he was the world champion
in the seniors division in 2022.
Then he was the European international champion in 2024.
Now 2026, he has the chance to become
a two-time Pokemon Go world champion.
That's right.
He also had a regional win in 2023.
So very impressive run, especially, you know,
once the senior division was essentially, they combined it,
He still won a regional right away in the master division.
And you said small company, right?
Java regional title, international title, and world title.
There's only one other person in the world that has that.
And that is its accident, our former world champion
from Yokohama and also a two-time international champion
and Emmy Weidow trying to pave his way
to becoming the first ever double world champion title.
But here in Maru, a fans has played so well throughout
this tournament even best thing feels the way to start things off the reigning world champion
in the first match of his his day and here are models again just like Contano first ever world
championship and has already made it into a guaranteed top three and we mentioned it before
but there was an increase in the amount of trainers that could qualify for the world championships
from the japan region and also some other apac regions as well but i'm so glad that that
because without that maybe we wouldn't have this moment.
A top three with two trainers from that Japan region.
I feel like this was one of the most feared regions coming into the tournament
because they did have the most amount of trainers from APAC region.
And when I was doing that unofficial questionnaire and asking some trainers,
many of them mentioned that it's really hard to know what is coming out of the Japan region
because you don't have as many statistics, you don't have that data of what they're using
what they're using and what they're bringing.
They're playing in a whole different atmosphere
and what they're bringing to the Pokemon Go World Championships
is legit.
And we know a lot about Emi Wido,
but let me give you the limited information
we know about Hiromaru.
Yes, attended PJCS, which is the final tournament
of Japan every year to get your qualification.
And for the last three years, last year,
he came in 17th place, the top 16, making the rules.
He was the 17th player, one spot away from making world championships and a year before
that he came in 41st.
So last year was as close as he got.
This year he makes it onto the world stage and we're ready to see right now what he can
do if he makes it to this final stage.
What a performance, what a run, what a year for here tomorrow.
Well we buried the lead a little bit because whoever wins this winners finals punches their
ticket to Championship Sunday on the winner's side of the bracket tomorrow at Chase Center.
He was one win away from qualifying in previous competitions, now he is only one series victory
away from coming in the best position possible going into those grand finals in another trainer
with some more spice.
He has the shadow hit out on.
He has the Jealousy, and he has the last remaining,
Hisunion Electrode.
Hisunion Electrode is looking very safe and neutral
versus all of Emile Weedle's team
besides that pesky Shadow-Cantle Ninetales.
But, that's why you have the Hip-Hound on,
and that is why you also have the Jealousy.
And you have the Licky Licky as well, a mirror matchup.
There's a lot of answers to the Cantle Ninetales.
We've seen Emile Weedle play a two perfection
in this tournament,
but he hasn't seen a Shadow-Hip-Hound on yet,
But here we go, the winners finals between here and Maru versus Emi Rideau.
It's gonna be a fantastic lead for here and Maru.
And it is going to be that Electro the Grass-side in comes, the Cantal Naga.
But here comes the Shadow and Pow-down.
And it is that trio right there with the Hissui and Electro.
The Shadow and Pow-down in the jealousy in the back.
And he actually does use a protect shield on that weather ball because if it was
a super effective energy ball,
they would do a lot of damage into a Shadow and Pow-down.
So you have to respect it and you get a protect shield back and it wasn't the earth power so he used less energy here
Let's take a look at the pacing. He will be outpaced though to the next energy ball
Let's see if here mom's going to shield the supplement ground rock coverage has perfect coverage
And nothing is going to resist all the other side emigrito shields the harder hitting and well gets the deep up
You see and you're getting a little excited here as look at the sand attack and it's always putting the
He's going for it, he's going to try to get to the handball, maybe getting a weather ball off, whether Deva might be huge, can he get to it, and he is going to throw the weather ball.
This is enough to KO the Shatter-Hip-Houdon.
It's going to be so close here, it is going to be neutral, but remember the defense did drop, and so does the Hip-Houdon.
And now you have an awkward situation because I don't think you can hex down before an energy ball is reached.
You actually can't. Do you try to go for a swap? Does he try to swap into the electric lead?
He does!
A beautiful swap from Guillermo.
And now, and Guirido is in a slightly weird position
because does he want to come in to electro with energy
with his black side?
No, but now he has a league in the league
which what's the answer to the jealousy?
Well, he's getting so close to the shadow ball range.
This is so risky here
because the shadow ball landing at this health
is incredibly close to knocking out a Hissui in the electro.
He didn't want to go for the wild charge.
He didn't want to drop into the fence by two stages.
Instead he went for the energy ball.
There's a swap on a wild charge.
What plays the both of these trainers
in the winner's finals?
Any wheel catching the resistance wild charge.
He's excited about that one.
But, here we go.
Can't still catch the end ball.
Any wheel not gonna let it happen.
Throws the neutral.
Muff bomb, and this is huge.
Look at this.
He is bumped up as he's trying to get his first win
right off the bat in the set.
What a beautiful play.
I believe he will pause even to get that catch off.
Well, what a risky play.
If he was wrong, and it was that energy ball,
it would have been a one hit knockout.
But instead, this Quagsire is around to take the surf.
The surf doesn't quite knock out.
Can you get to another charge attack?
And yes, you do get to one parting Aqua Tail
that would do a little bit of chip damage
into the Jellison.
Now it's gonna come down to the backline matchup.
We do have the Jellison versus the Licky Licky.
But is now this Jellison in range of one shadow ball?
It's gonna be so close, but I think Jellison
might be able to hang on.
The Aqua Tail was crucial.
It puts it in potential range for the Shadow Ball,
but not quite enough.
Can't get there with the body slam though.
And Emmy Weedon, he's already given the fist bump.
He knows that this will be enough.
What an amazing guess from Emmy Weedon,
recognizing every win condition possible
to pull off such a disastrous lead.
We see the brilliant swap from Hiro Maru
to take that resisted energy ball
from the Shadow Kanto Night Tales
into the Haseung Electrode.
The previous World Champion says I can do that too.
Instead of getting one hit knocked out,
I will take a resisted wild charge and win game number one.
And remember we said it before, this is a best of five.
So either one of these traders needs to get three game victories
on the board to move on the championship Sunday.
And it might be a best of five,
but a win in game number two for Enrique Guido
will put hero model in such a bad position.
Four teams go for a reverse sweep,
three in a row against one of the best players in the world.
As you see, the amazing catch from hero Marl.
But what you can do, I can do better
is what Emi Rito says as the Emi ball lands.
Does he go for the pause?
He pauses there, expecting the optimized timing
from hero Marl and what a brilliant catch from him
to secure the victory.
Usually when you are using a pre-turned fast attack,
a trainer will use their two-turned fast attack
and throw their charge attack right before the damage
registers from your fast attack.
I know that's a mouthful, but that is the standard
in Pokemon Go PvP.
M.E. Weedle was able to pause for those two turns,
let the Thunder Sharks through, and then swap,
call out that it's gonna be a wild charge
and take game number one,
and that way locked in to game number two,
and it's Hiromoru who calls the lead
with the Shadow Ibana.
It's the same team of three for both of these trainers.
And M.E. Weedle, trying to figure out
how to play this one out as just a,
Rock by the ball is going to come through.
Going to have to shield us up.
It is the less effective movement, earth power,
but if you land the Rock by the ball,
it's really going to do so much damage
that you can potentially just pass that down.
Ghost with a bait yet again.
This here model called us enough.
He knows losing this game could put him
in such a bad position.
Does he expect it?
He throws on the shield at the last second.
And then indeed it's just the weather ball baits
and now trying to reach for it.
Does he try to go for it and throws the Rock by the ball
yet again before?
I mean, we don't go through the next move.
And it's so hard because you really don't want to swap
out of this match up because you don't want to take a super effective
weather ball on your electrode and you don't want to take that energy ball
onto your gel set. Here comes the weather ball. I don't think this one's going to
be able to knock out because there was no D-ball from the energy ball.
And it is no shielded by Hiromaru and now suddenly you can get to that
weather ball yourself but you get cut off in your in the same situation where
you're going to have a hard time farming down with your gel set. So
maybe he's going to try to make the same thought but this time he has the
protect field advantage. It's the same three Pokemon but in a slightly
different order and more importantly, yes, we lose the switcher man is right here tomorrow. But
if you don't let this go, he let's just go. He express it. Licky Licky. What a great call
because now the quack that has no way to go into his back line. You come in,
Electro. He has to come in the Licky Licky to neutralize the grass type Pokemon and that is
the Joseph. A lot more play in the back and here come the Licky Licky. I mean, we don't
doesn't have anywhere to go. Just wants to try to take out this electrode as much as possible.
but now the quacks are, it's, it's, I should put that play into the gel side, I would say, in this health range.
Well, the thing is, you have to get through this licky-licky. You have that protect shield advantage.
Luckily, double energy ball can do it. You don't want to debuff yourself with that wild charge.
Two, drop your defense by two stages, and here comes the body slam bait,
and it is effectively protect shield by Hero Maru. And now there's the swap. He tried to do it once again,
but he knows it's over now, because now he can just throw a charge attack priority
into that mudbump, one hit knockout,
and bake the charge attack in the back,
which is the wild charge.
It's gonna be back-to-back charge attacks
and back-to-back knockouts for this Assylian Electro
as Hero Maru was able to tie up the series.
And this is Electro, but Lightning does not strike twice
as Mewito tries to catch the resistant wild charge,
but Hero Maru's not gonna fall for it again,
evens up the series once one.
Now we have a vessel three on our hands.
And this is what bestifies us all about the little micro adjustments.
We saw that same team of three from both of those trainers in game number one and
game number two in different orders.
But Hiromaru was able to get another protect shield for that backline,
use that same electrode.
But instead of getting swapped on, he was patient, had to protect shield and
closed it out and we got a time series.
Wow.
What a series we have here between our two players.
And Hiromaru, he's here for a reason.
He might be facing off against a multi-title champion,
a former world champion, but he can't hear to play,
and play he suddenly is.
And you're gonna see that team of three,
I think, from here tomorrow, a lot of times.
I'm actually more curious if M.E. reedles,
which is something up,
because you do have some flexibility with some neutral picks.
I'm looking at you, Galarian Corsal up.
You have some opportunity to come into this battle
and maybe soak up some energy
and go for some key farm downs with a fast attack as well.
I don't see a reason for Hiro Maru to switch it up,
but Emi Rideau has now seen the same look twice.
Does he double think what he's gonna be bringing
into this battle?
I think he might adjust a little bit.
Let's see how they're gonna make the adjustments here.
A win here is crucial as that puts them on match point.
Emi Rideau, feeling poised.
He knows that the electrode is still a pain from him,
forcing him to bring that nine to the sewing matchup,
But that just makes your tomorrow's matchup a little bit easier.
Bring that pow down in so many matches.
Bring the Jellison enough to take the edge ball in some of these matchups.
And I think there might be a chance both players like the same three Pokemon yet again on both sides.
And remember this is a best of five.
So the winner will not advance.
The winner will just have a two next to their name and have that advantage.
This is the Jellison versus the Shadow Facts.
All right, it is the same team of three from here tomorrow.
and it's the same team of three once again for M.E.Rido.
And let's see M.E.Rido.
The quackster is not amazing into Jelsson,
but it's still a decently neutral matchup,
especially the mob bomb being able to do some effective damage,
a little bit better and more consistent
than the Stolen Edge, I would say.
And here comes the catch, gets the roll off you,
but it's still the right move,
so it's not true that could have been a shadow ball,
but here Mal throws the neutral surf,
and now we get the Licky Licky out of the way,
and here comes the Houdon.
and the Hapowdon is baited out.
That is maybe what Emi Wido was looking for.
He was trying to bait out that Hapowdon
so he could have that Shadow Kanto Ninetales
for the backline of the Hatsune Electro.
He did effectively do that.
So I don't know if Hiromura Maru
just fell into the trap of Emi Wido,
but I think it is a slight advantage
that you now have that Shadow Kanto Ninetales
for the backline.
Yeah, this is a really great way out from Emi Wido
and how do you deal with the Shadow Ninetales?
It is the story of worlds.
It is the story of this tournament,
and it may be the story of Emmy Rito's historic run
to go back to the Grand Finals after four years
and try to become a repeat world champion
here on Ghosts of the Earth Power.
Emmy Rito might just not shield this.
He knows the Ninetales is so strong,
and he doesn't join all this energy away,
and now comes the Ninetales.
One, two, three, can he do it?
As the Emberos are adding up,
but the Sand Tax is doing so much damage on top of it.
Possibly the strongest Pokemon in the current open great league meta has an
Opportunity the full sweep the back line of hero Maru
But first it's gonna have to land an energy ball it gets protection
I believe a surf is already available
But the key thing is as soon as this nine tails gets in range of a wild charge that is also risky
Here comes the last protection of the battle, but how much can you over form here?
I know that electro doesn't get knocked out by one single weather ball. That's absolutely right
Maybe go and go for the charge attack priority though goes right before the serve is reached and spout as much energy
He can possibly get against the gel sit here tomorrow
So I have to catch potential as well as to keep that in mind as this is going to be two turn two turn and we will
Great on the pause mechanic try put potentially go for that pause
But let's see if your mom's going to go for now because a failed pause could also give and you know all the energy
He needs to close this out.
It all comes down to this.
Can Electrode endure to reach a wild charge?
It's super effective, but not effective enough.
And Hiromaru is able to reach the wild charge
and take game number two.
Hiromaru smiling aside relief, going up two to one
against Emmy Wiel, putting him on match point.
And history is in the making for Hiromaru
for the Japan region and for the entire circuits.
And let's see if Emmi Rideau can withstand
and force a pivotal game number five,
or will he drop through the loser's bracket
and have to do it all over again?
Look, when Emmi Rideau was preparing for this tournament,
he wasn't thinking that he was gonna have to deal
with a trio of Jealousy, Shadow, Hip-Houndron,
and Hussion and Lectured.
But now he is here, and it's the only trio he is seeing.
He has seen that in the first three battles.
I'm gonna say it again.
I think Emmy Weedle is the one trainer
that could change up the formula,
change the strategy a little bit,
because so far I feel like here tomorrow,
those having that Hesuin electrode in the back,
having the pressure from the Jealousy in Shadow of Hapodon
is just enough.
I wanna see if Emmy Weedle brings out
some more neutrality, bulky picks
to try to make some plays that outplay his opponent
to move on to the grand finals.
Maru could potentially be locking in a final line.
Everyone knows how powerful it is
to go into Championship Sunday
with the winners bracket on your side.
Only one more set away to becoming the champion
and heartier Maru needs one more win to do it.
And here comes the Glant course
on the first time Emilio brings it out,
but it could be absolutely pivotal
as there's no true answer for it on the side of here.
And there it is the adjustment from Amy Vito has two of the three same Pokemon
But Rod Declare in Coastline that has a ton of neutral play and he is facing the same
Three Pokemon once again for the fourth game in a row throwing the energy ball for a hero model
So he doesn't drop his defense so he can take this nightshade no problem
And it looks like the electrode can win this zero protection of situation pretty confidently with the wild charge
Absolutely, wow, that's well because playing Coastal is one of the most focused Pokemon in this meta,
but here tomorrow is going to be at the win switch advantage, which is absolutely huge.
Actually, the Coastal is not going to do it. It's here tomorrow, Coastal is going to swap right away,
but now, come to Quackstart. This is everything Emilio needs to get back into this game.
And look at the backline matchup as well.
It's going to be the Jealousy into the Licky Licky, the Ghost type into the Normal type.
Here comes the Protection, but it's on a bait. It is going to be on the Resisted Attack of Weatherball Rock.
And here comes the back-to-back Aqua Tail, it's already reached.
Do you give out both of your protections in this situation?
I feel like you have to keep this Eipad on around.
Eipad trying to do everything Hiromaru can will it to do,
as Enriuido goes for another Aqua Tail.
Enriuido's got to suspect that there could be a swap of catch happening,
as the timers are coming up to Hiromaru.
And does Enriuido stay in? Does he throw the Aqua Tail?
Tries to throw it, but the Earth Power comes through.
and then Mimiro makes the correct shield call.
Hereumal has a catch potential on the Electro.
That would be absolutely huge.
Even the Jell-O would be okay.
He might go for it.
No, he doesn't actually go for the awkward tail here.
Instead of gonna let this, your Pado on go down.
But the thing is, there's enough health on this Electro
to possibly get to a charge attack.
A charge attack could be so useful.
The Mudshot might not be enough damage to knock out
before he gets to his own attack.
Does he come in, get some Thunder Sharks,
and then swap on the awkward tail?
He's gonna try to catch the up ideal.
Nothing's going on! He catches it on the Jellisens!
Exactly what he needs, but now Emiwido has the switch advantage.
Can Lod the Licky Tone in, and the Licky Licky in,
but more importantly, he can even farm up extra and she can leave with the Augusta board later,
and that's exactly what he's going to do.
But he's going to lose the charge attack priority if Electrode somehow does get to an attack in the backline,
but it's all about getting to your timer right now, if you are hero Mario.
You're going to be able to throw this surf. One surf is not going to be enough.
Two surfs is not going to be enough.
I believe you need three surfs in this matchup to win it.
In the meantime, you are in danger of getting knocked out by a shadow ball,
but I believe he's slightly out of range.
And I think Emilito trying to get up to double shadow ball,
trying to put in a situation where the electrode has to absolutely throw
the move to have a chance.
I think he has a body stand remaining and you can't under shock the sound.
You can't get to back to back moves.
Jellison does indeed endure it, but one more roll out will do it.
Actually, Emilito goes for it.
I like this play.
Taking it out.
If the calmly came through, he takes out the Electrode,
but either way, the Electrode has to throw the energy,
and M.E. Weedow is gonna force a game number five
in this Winner's Finals.
And we wouldn't want it any other way.
We are tied up two to two.
The winner of this next battle will advance to compete
for the World Championships in Shade Cider,
an NBA arena.
It's gonna be one of the most epic
Pokemon experiences ever.
And there's so much on the line for both players
for so many different reasons.
And we realize, see on your screen,
a world champion looking to do it yet again,
looking to be the first person ever
to raise that trophy twice in a lifetime.
And that's something that players can't even imagine
to do once in hero models.
Putting so much pressure on himself
to have the performance of lifetime himself
to also put Japan back in the map and in contention from being one of the best regions in the world already.
Tying the potential and the max speed that Crescent Angels set four years ago
for the Grand Finals and a potential world champion title on the line would be historic.
And a quick salute to Hiromaru for running the exact team composition
for four straight battles in a winner's finals,
knowing that the Hussain Electrode shadow hip-hound on
and Jellison is so strong versus Indy Riedel's team.
But now, with everything on the line,
does he second guess himself?
Does he make that last second adjustment?
We know at this point, Indy Riedel is expecting those four,
and it doesn't even matter because he knows how to play around it now.
So do you give him a little bit of a different look,
Or do you know, I think I believe in this team, I can get it son.
We're gonna find out right now, the winner advances the championship Sunday.
What a lead for Hiro Maru with the electric grass type into that mudboy.
Here comes the swap in the channel, K. The Ninthos is made by the Licky Licky, the adjustment.
The adjustment is huge, but there's a Licky Licky Ninthos matchup on the reverse and in the back as well.
The Electron has so much play into the remaining team in end game up.
Oh, the defense drop!
Right away, it's massive, as Perumal is going to go straight for the Shadow Ball.
I think he feels calm that even if he doesn't win Scrychirianne's,
he could potentially do something as we see.
Energy lead on the ninth-year shield advantage can still take out even the Quaxire.
And now you might be in danger of getting knocked out by a Weatherball here
because your defense has dropped by one stage.
It is a no-shield.
Kane, Licky, Licky, hang on with just no help.
No! Licky, Licky goes down,
and now it's all up to the Hussian Electro in the back.
But Imi Uido and the Shadow King,
Donaito's just very healthy.
Here comes the swapping to the Licky, Licky.
And Licky, Licky brings it in.
Hiromu has to figure out a way to deal with this bulky Nomotype.
And Imi Uido, paving out a great play,
because now he saves Donaito's whip energy
for the Electro in the back.
He might be down a shield,
but he has a lot of energy to contend with.
Well, that's a great point because you really can't devote
Shields right now because you know those weather balls are sitting there in the back threatening. You're his only electrode
You need to bank them up and do you make a swap to try to go for Thunder sharp down?
No, instead just trying to get this licky-licky out of here in me is we don't think about it
Do I give up my last protection on the battle? He does so it is going to be a true protection
Advantage for a hero morrow in the back line with his electron
And Electro trying to sweep it all the way but you have to throw a wild charge.
Oh the back to back where the ball is there.
And Emirito gonna dump all this entry.
Irumal is gonna spend full shields right off the bat.
Can still over farm quite a bit.
And this is a top off for Emirito.
If he gets taken out by the wild charge, his timer's not gonna be up.
To prevent you from even going for a catch.
Irumal is gonna have to over farm as much as possible in this matchup.
But Caleb, he's still waiting for the energy ball.
Oh, this might be enough. He doesn't deep up in the fire.
He's going for the resisted attack.
Grass in the fire.
It doesn't matter because one more Thunder Shock
that Night Tales is going down.
But remember, Amy Weedle still has that Backline Pokemon,
has the Likiliki. Actually, he's going to come into the Likiliki here.
He's going to throw that body slam.
But unless he gets the two charge attacks,
he can't knock out here.
But I think he will be able to get the two charge attacks.
Hero Marvel is in self-attach position.
Does he swap? No, he throws the energy ball.
And this is gonna be tough for Admiro.
He has no catch opportunities left.
He's grimacing a little bit.
He was in such a great lead position.
Can he get to the Muffab? Can the Muffab KO?
The only reviewed done shot to the way in Hiromaru has done it.
Japan has waited for years, 1470 days,
but Hiromaru has changed the script
and he is making it to the grand finals of World Championships.
It is double super effective as a Soviet Electroden
Hero model is able to take the decisive game number five
to advance the championship Sunday here at 2026 Pokemon World.
He will be on the winner's side as well double super effective
and double trainers from Japan are still in these top three.
And history has been made, but there's still more history to be made as your mom is going to lock in the highest finish ever from his region.
The highs are finished for himself.
The first ever World Championship, he's even attended and he has gone undefeated taking out multiple World Champions, taking out Beals the Boy and Emmie Weedle to former World Champions again here.
There was no easier.
No, there's no harder path than the one you took and having that set advantage for grand finals tomorrow is absolutely massive for the player from Japan and look as a spice
appreciator myself after 30 years of Pokemon 10 years of Pokemon Joe I feel like a big part of Pokemon is sticking with the Pokemon that you like and you believe in and that is exactly
exactly what Hiromaru did to get to this moment.
He stuck with his strongest Pokemon that were Fringe Meta,
the Hasunion Electrode, the Jealousynt,
the Shadow Hippodon.
He stuck with that trio for four straight battles,
only making one slight adjustment
to use a fourth Pokemon in Licky Licky
in that decisive game number five.
And it is a huge reason that he is gonna be participating
the biggest Pokemon of this that we might ever have a jibbitz series. It's crazy.
And you can see the sportsman here from Emmy Guido as well clapped first
bonus. He knows it was a tough one. He knew he was in such a good position but
he has to do it all over again in the losers' finals. He got to recollect
himself right because Consono has been rested. He's been watching and he's
taking notes but Emmy Guido he's got more work to do to get back to that
grand final stage possibly for the second time ever. And Compton know he's been
playing amazing all tournament long. The only person he lost to was indeed the
player that just beat Emi Rideau. So both of them have something in common here.
But that's about it because the teams are nothing in common in this one.
It's Follower versus Quack Sack. It's Shadow Fight. I don't even know what's
but it's going to be a complete spice fest in this Loser finals.
That's all I'm chuckling to myself here because if you thought Jellison and
Shadow hit out on was weird guess what now open the new door. It's
gonna be a shadow Glyscore in Shadow Polly Toad. It's got Toto just like
hero Maru is a trainer that sticks with his signature Pokemon. The Shadow
Polly Toad has been the standout the Pokemon he often has in that backline
and now we have our losers finals set. We do have our one trainer solidified
from the winner side but whoever wins this series this best of five will come
in on that loser's side of the bracket for championship Sunday. And I can't I
can't remember if I talked about this on the broadcast with you butters but in my
mind coming into Swarman I thought APEC had such a great chance to win it all.
Not only were our two previous world champions the champions from that region
but this year they increased the amount of spots from the region from all the APEC
countries to participate in world championships and so well deserved it is look at this top three two are from a back to from the exact
Region two from Japan and they have so much potential and if you think about it
Here tomorrow last year got 17 place miss out world championships
If that was this year he would have qualified and just be I can't remember how well he did at PJCS this year
But if you guys, let's say 17th again, just allowing him to even have the chance to make you on this big stage, to compete with the best of best, to show up what he can do is the opportunity that we love to see from them.
And especially from these A-back regions too, and their tournaments, their qualifiers, it's very, very tough because they have one chance. That's it.
They have the qualifier on their final playoff tournament or the qualifier tournament depending on the region.
But it's not like North America, Europe, Oceania, or Latin.
We have multiple chances to earn championship points
when a tournament to get the all qualification.
There's only one chance from these APEC players.
And yes, they might have smaller numbers
than these other regions,
but everyone these players coming out of those regions
are absolute monsters in the battlefield.
And we're seeing it right here.
Well, sometimes in life, all you need is a chance
because we all have greatness within us.
And that is the point proven by these trainers
from the Japan region.
It is the point proven from all of these trainers in our top 32.
Four day number two.
We are still down to our final three,
but we are trying to get to our final two.
It is between M.E. Weedle and Contono.
The winner of this series will advance to championship Sunday.
It's going to be a wild matchup.
M.E. Weedle was just facing the spice.
He's going to face it again.
It just looks a little different.
The water spice got a little spicier.
The ground spice maybe even got even spicier as well.
Definitely.
And you know, there's so much on the line as well, right?
The biggest world championship for Pokemon to date.
The fifth ever world championships for Pokemon.
Built the 10 year anniversary for the game,
the 30th anniversary for Pokemon as a franchise
at the biggest stage, at the biggest arena.
Championships on the at the chase arena even.
And both these players want a chance
to be a part of that history.
but only one will be able to make it there.
Enjoy here tomorrow in that grand finals.
It's the stuff of legends,
and we are going to get into this series.
Let's look at the teams once again on Emmy Weedle's side.
It's the Calarian Corsola, the Shadow Kanto Ninetales,
the Impoleon, the Shadow Clagsire with Aqua Tail Mud Bomb,
Licky Licky and Florgis.
Do you believe in the Pangoro?
Cause look at the team of Emmy Weedle.
double triple week to Bangor in the licky licky, the impolnion, and the course look.
And then you have neutral play into the nine tails, and you're quite excited.
Only thing that's going to resist the damage from the Bangor is the floor jizz.
So if any real wants to play this and have a decent answer to it, he has to bring the
floor jizz, but he can opt to play more mutually into it if possible.
Because Bangor is not the bulkiest Pokemon in Great League.
A little bit more frail.
You can handle it a little bit better in neutral matchups.
of the pacing fast and the potential close combat is scary.
Well, it doesn't come down to my belief.
It comes into the individual belief of the players
in their Pokemon.
And I know Contono believes in all of his Pokemon
on his team of six.
Shadow Polytone has been the standout,
has been the Pokemon he is leaned on.
But in this matchup, I have to agree with you,
Han Goro just looks awesome.
It has to avoid that fairy type,
But otherwise, it's going to be neutral to strong
against the entire team of Emi-Widdle,
the flexibility that he has.
And even look at a Pokemon like the Shadow Polytote,
that also looks incredibly neutral.
Yes, you might have a little problem
in some certain matchups knocking out against, say,
like an Impoleon, because you don't have Charge Attack
that can knock it out, but you're also only taking
Metal Sounds and Drill Pecs in return.
And it looks like we are going to get these losers finals started.
It is a best of five in the start us off.
We got the licky, licky versus Tinketon.
And Consolino trying to catch the Forge and expecting it.
Doesn't bring the Pangoro.
But expecting Emmy Weeders to bring the Forge.
That's exactly going to be case as Emmy Weedle a little bit weak
to Tinketon in the lead and in the back.
So Conn has to stay there at least to chip down some damage
before potentially swapping out.
And Tinketon just looks really good against everything
that isn't Shadow Kanto,
and I tell him to get to Emile Guido's team as well.
I feel like Contono has a team composition advantage
into this matchup as Emile Guido is gonna be able
to land the Shadow Ball.
A double Shadow Ball doesn't quite do it against Singaton,
but Singaton does have to commit to, oh my goodness.
Take your book out of Martial Gaudes strategy
as that was done to Contono,
but he does it to Emile Guido in this loser's final,
catching the double resisted Shadow Ball,
and there is no biting type on the side of Emile Guido.
There's no ticket on either, so this Licky Licky is so safe in the team at Mewito.
And this is a bit awkward for the Shadow Faxar.
You would think that it's a good matchup because you do resist those rollouts.
But as you can see, once a Shadow Ball lands, the second Shadow Ball will knock out.
And the more rollout damage you do, you can maybe even knock out with a body slam and maybe a pivot with a couple fast attacks.
So, Faxar, you think you're strong, but Licky Licky is number one usage for a reason.
Here comes the Shadow Ball, but it's cut off by the mudbump.
Contono knows he can endure, so he instantly lets the shield go.
It's going to put the health on Lincoln Lincoln quite low.
Can you catch the Shadow Ball back?
Not going to be available as Contono does, Dad.
The Shadow Ball off.
Doesn't he realize that you don't want to let it go?
It's going to allow Contono to take out the Black Star,
maintain switch advantage, so as to shield the piece,
and he encombs the floorages, but encombs the polytode.
And maybe he was expecting that Hengoro in the back.
He hadn't seen it yet.
He's thinking, OK, this is great.
I have my best kids.
I have my best counter to the strongest Pokemon against my team, but it is not that Pangoro.
It is actually the Shadow Polytote that has been leaned on so much.
And you know what he also leans on?
Calling Bates, because he let that Chilling Water through that's not very effective, but
it does drop the attack of the Polytote, which is maybe what Immywita was looking for.
And you can see Immywita acknowledging as well.
I mean, there's a few things that could, to signal, to console know that that is exactly
what's going to happen.
he would have first shielded the Fortress.
Second, even if it's the Sarming Boys, he can tank it.
So if it was a base,
he at least would be in a good situation
if he no shields it.
But he's been no shielding all day long
and he's also been shielding all the right moves
all week long as he gets to another red ball
against the Fortress.
And will this be enough to knock out?
Remember, the attack has been dropped by one stage.
It's not enough to knock out.
And that means there is one more the Sarming Boys
that Contano has to deal with.
He's going to let his trusty polytoed go down and try to rely on his backline Tinketon to finish up this matchup.
Already the Licky Licky is in close range on Bulldoze.
Here comes that Bulldoze. I think it's going to be enough.
There's a no shield from Emmy Riedel.
Emmy Riedel acknowledging and conceding that matchup here.
Way too much health left. Way too much energy left on the side of Contano.
And such a great line call from Contano expecting Emmy Riedel to bring that forward just in case the Pan-Gorl isn't brought.
And Contano, he brings the PEN goal when it counts.
He's brought us so many times in Pivotal Game 3s in the lead,
and he has found such great positions for it.
And I'm sure has seen that happen.
But Contano, amazing line compositions,
amazing no shield and shield calls
throughout this tournament.
Such smart strategy and planning
from this young trainer from Japan.
Well, speaking of the team line compositions,
he was looking very similar,
because both of these trainers had the Licky Licky.
Both of these trainers had that mudshot user,
and getting to quick energy with that Aqua Tail
and that Weatherball water on the side of Shadow Clawytoad
in both of these trainers had a very tight.
But in all these scenarios, it seems
like Contonal had slight advantages, Pokemon the Pokemon.
He has the advantage of the Tinketons into the Forges.
I feel like even Clawytoad has decent to great play
into that Shadow Quagsire as well.
Although Shadow Quagsire does have the mud bomb,
it just felt like in those mirror compositions,
the spice was winning out.
And I feel like, Cops, we gotta check this somehow,
but I feel like he's brought Shadow Politoad
into every single game.
Speaking of every single game, here it is,
in the lead for game number two,
a fantastic matchup for the Politoad
as the Weatherball is going to be doing some solid damage,
but Mup Bomb is also a game type attack bonus.
However, the Weatherball just slightly faster.
And the Weatherball does land
into the shadow of Quagsire here,
and it does about half of the health.
We're going to see how much damage this Mudbomb does into the Polytode.
Polytode does have decent bulk to its name.
Of course, this is a Shadow Pokemon, meaning that it's going to take 20% more damage.
Mudbomb is going to view over half of the remaining health,
but you just outpace to those Weatherbombs,
going to throw on Charge Attack Priority,
and Immy Weedle is forced to use his first Protect Shield.
But now the Polytos close in on Aqua Tail Range.
More importantly as well, and we could potentially catch Aqua Tail,
or a Weatherbomb onto his important,
but no, it's going to be constant though,
catching the aqua tail on his own, Licky Licky.
And again, Licky Licky is so safe for Kondo.
He can just bring this into almost anything,
at any time, into the team of Emmerito.
And here comes the Impoleon, a Pokemon
that we haven't seen much in these last series.
The Impoleon is going to be able to take this Shadow Ball,
no problem, but you don't want to take a double Shadow Ball
from the Licky Licky.
The problem is also that this Licky Licky
is slightly out of Hydra Cannon range.
You are at one Hydra Cannon, but if this Licky Licky
can barely hold on to get to either a body slam or a shadow ball.
We're going to find out right now.
This is neutral.
It's a community day attack.
Can Licky Licky endure?
And Licky Licky sure does endure.
One more rollout against the shadow ball.
And Emmi Weedow grimacing a little bit.
Maybe getting a little too greedy with this.
He knows losing this game will put him in such a deficit going down.
O2, he cannot risk it.
And the polyzone gets to the weather ball at the same time.
But Shropak is going to be reaching comfortable
and let this go, trying to clean up with his other
spicy Shadow Pokemon, the Shadow Gliscor.
And there goes the Polly Toad.
He is busting out that Shadow Gliscor
for the first time in this series.
He's gonna try to go for the Wing Attack down,
but at his trouble for the Gliscor,
does usually in the past have some options
for some fast attacks that are ground,
but now has that Wing Attack that recently got buffed
and here comes the Forges.
He's gonna send it.
He has been sending it the whole time.
Of course it will. There's no protection remaining. Here does come the chilling water to try to nullify some of the attack of the Glide score
I like this play for Compton. Let's the chilling water go. Notice the quagside in the back putts. That still does a good chunk of super effective damage
Now throws the acrobatics. Can he hang on to the mudshot damage to get another acrobatics?
All squish timers will be available soon for Compton though. Not quite yet ready for any Wido as he has the decision to make still a shield
remaining and Kostyl needs to land the Acrobax into the quag side but a catch
might be possible not quite yet as Kostyl can't take more metal sound
damage. And Emmi Rideau he might have a chance to tie it up one to one. And he
lands the sand tomb into the impoleon and now he is trying to get to one more
attack somewhere and no there is going to be a mud shot down and now there is
the charge attack bank it doesn't matter another mud shot goes through and it is
time one to one. And Emmy Weidow staying true to form, having the grit despite the top situations
he was put into this game. And you can see, look at the players, they're smiling as well,
they're having fun. They know what's at stake. But at the end of the day, we play this game because
it's fun. We play it because we're enjoying it. And these players are enjoying themselves here.
I mean, they respect, they have each other's huge, right? They know how good each other are.
They're taking games back for all of each other, calling each other's face, calling each other's
catches, doing everything you can to outplay their opponents.
And what a fun time it is to see them on the stage.
Just incredible, talented trainers.
And it doesn't get any better than this.
How many Tide series have we had?
It seems like it's always 1-1, 2-2, and always going
to that decisive battle.
And now suddenly, the Spice, the rubber,
has hit the road a little bit against Emmy Weedle.
He did bring out that Shadow Blitzcourt.
But do we see the appearance from the Panko Roe?
You said, do I believe, does Contono believe in that pangoro backline?
And I'd like to pause over on Contono.
I'd like to lick you, lick you as well.
I don't know if this Shadow Glide Sport is going to do it for Conto,
because it doesn't have any really dominant matchup against the team at New
Year. It does have a lot of user damage to hit for everything.
And, you know, a little super vector damage here, there with a standard incident
pull down, but it kind of needs a lot of shields.
And, you know, if you don't land acrobatics or if you just take too much
fast attack damage, it could be troublesome.
as everything I mean, Rito's team can hit back into it.
But here we go. Game number three,
it's going to be the Licky Licky
into the floor just as a very safe lead for Consuno.
All right, the floor just is met by the Licky Licky here.
And now you can try to go instantly
for that Chilling Water debuff
to try to lower the attack by one stage of the Licky Licky.
And bystand, going to be thrown
before the Chilling Water comes through.
Consuno getting the chip damage needed.
Still no Pankoro throughout the series.
And Rito going for it, the starting voice.
I like this play because you don't know
Contra is going to swap out clear deep off.
So it goes for the harder hitting neutral disarming voice
to bring down the H3 of this bulky normal type.
And now comes another disarming voice.
Contra, no, doesn't shield.
No, he doesn't.
Has the Shadow Ball ready.
And there's nothing really in the meter
can catch on the back.
And there is no literally gives.
Oh, Shadow Ball, going to be a good move to throw,
regardless.
And Contra, I think Paul's there even
to avoid any potential catch.
Throws the Shadow Ball to potentially KO the Borges.
And I think he's just going to swap out.
I mean, this is how neutral it is.
You don't really care about switch branching in,
in, come to polytose.
The polytose comes out.
So does the shadow Quagsire here.
That means we're gonna have a rematch
up some backline matchup with that Impolione
and the shadow Gliscore as well.
Here comes the first octpital.
We know that does about half the damage up in Quagsire here.
Do you try to make a swap into the next weather ball?
Here comes the mudbump into the polytose.
Does pick up a protection.
Remember, Eni-Widdle does have his switch available.
He can come into his Impolione
and take that not very effective weather ball.
He's not going for it yet.
He is reaching for his charge stack,
but first there is one more weather ball.
I like the patience on Emilito.
Doesn't throw the move by the way,
expecting that there could be a potential catch
on this mud bomb, maybe on the bicycle,
which would put him in a really bad position.
But Contano, actually,
especially when he wasn't even up yet,
doesn't want to throw on charge attack,
already now gets the mud bomb to land.
Now, then Poli on the back is pretty strong for Emilito,
resisting the wing attack damage on the bicycle.
Tries to come in with them, Poli on.
And now Contano throws a resistant weather ball,
trying to figure out what to do to take out this pesky
and pulling on Emil Rideau even looking over like,
what could possibly in the back,
what could compel you to throw the resisted weather ball.
But here comes another resisted weather ball,
Emil Rideau, does he throw his final shield
on a resisted move?
He says no.
He does two resisted weather balls
and Emil Rideau was looking at that team sheet,
like what could it be?
I'm just gonna go for the middle sound down here
and bank all of this energy.
There's one protector remaining
and there is one swap out for Contono.
Remember, he just swapped, so he has to get all the way back to his Switch Timer,
but he is running out of time because the Hydra Cannon is going to be super effective.
And in me, Widow, he knew it. He knew it was the Shadow Fist going to back,
and Contrano is struggling right now because this is not where he wants to be,
and he can't get back to his Switch Timer.
And there is no time remaining, like you said. Back to back, Hydra Cannon will seal the deal,
will seal the fate for Contrano in this start and pivot all match.
There's only one more win that Emmy Weedle needs to get back to the grand finals of a world championship.
Ken Kotsunow do it again and force it game number five.
And what a bounce back for M.E. Weedle to be defeated in that decisive game number five to
be put in this moment with one game victory away from getting to the grand finals and getting
his rematch against hero Maru as well.
He is one step closer, but don't count out Contono.
Yes, he has not had a great matchup with that shadow close score in the back,
but I just keep thinking, is it time to sit the glide score?
It's time to bring the pangoro.
I don't even know, butters.
I looked over at you for a second and I look back.
Obviously, we can see a little bit more information.
Contono just locked in the team in half a second.
I have no idea what he's bringing.
He is confident. He's saying, you know what?
I'm all sending this game number four.
If it happens, it happens.
I think it might be a Pankor,
but he's bought in so many people games.
Does he bring it into potentially his final game?
Here we go.
Matt Swayver, Emmy Weedow,
and it's gonna be the Pankor, the shiny one,
right in the lead, right where he wants it,
into the Galarian course.
And it's not core breaking right now
because there is no Pokemon weak to the Pankor on the back,
but there are two Pokemon
that can deal with it strong in one neutrally which is the shadow quags are
the shadow quags are does come in to take that knife slash down easy a
chip and dip there it is the chip and dip into the poly-toe and this is a tough
arm for a contolo because this is not a situation where you can just give up
switch advantage there is the force in the back you start to suspect it with
the course on in the lead it's the most reliable and the only real check to it
as console now has put this quags are in range available and any real might be
completely hard counter. Can he find a way to do this?
Because you resist the Saanich, you resist the Nightshake,
you resist the Power Gen, and Vorgi is not going to do amazing
interlicking, looking with still two shields on top of it.
You also get chip damage.
This Corsola has absolutely nowhere to go.
It is walled by that backline.
One a dark type, and one a normal type.
What reads from Fontano, whatever he did in that three seconds
to pick his team composition, was exactly spot on.
He's able to land the weather ball into the course.
One more weather ball will threaten.
Here comes the pivot because he knows he has two answers,
no matter what for the course.
Just trying to fade out that forges.
And comes to know the polytote might be his signature Pokemon,
but the shiny Pankoro is the ace up his sleeve
when he needs him most.
It comes through for him.
Can it come through for him one more time in this game
that he needs to win to force a game five
against the former world champion, Emi Rideau.
Shadow Ball is going to be shielded.
A massive shield for Emi Rideau.
Contono is going to be very hesitant
to use a protect shield in this matchup
because he knows there is that very tight charge attack
on the fortress that will be double super effective
against that Pangoro in the back line.
So I think he's going to keep those protect shields
for the Pangoro in the back.
He'll be able to get the protection from the fortress here.
So that means Emi Rideau is all in right now.
He's probably going to try to land the Chilling Water right before the Shadow Ball is available.
And Contra, no, this is so weird and dicey for him.
Do you want a shield and throw a triple D-ball Shadow Ball at the gorgeous Ghost of the Paws?
Ghost of the Raiway?
I think it's a solid play for him because he needs to put the gorgeous in Night Slash Range,
but, I mean, Rito, he does throw the energy on the Corsa.
In comes the Pangoro Chilling Water, let me throw.
Do you ever call it a no-corner?
throw off the shield. It's still neutral damage that he's going to risk, you know, negate.
And there comes the protection from Contour. There are no protections remaining.
And where do you throw your energy? There's a swap available. Here comes the mag slash,
which is resisted against the fairy typing on the forges. And remember, there wasn't a
tack drop. Is it enough to knock out the forges and take game number four? Yes, it's strong
to attack priority once again. That's going to be super effective. He means we know he's
He thinks he knows this is super effective and enough to seal the deal for Contrano.
No, Charged on does he on.
Charged on priority is massive for Contrano because there's still the licky licky in the back.
Can you get the rollout down?
Double resistance, not going to be enough as the rollouts will do it.
And we have another game five in this loser's finals.
And with the biggest Pokemon Go World Championships,
the biggest Pokemon World Championships yet.
It is only fitting that these trainers are pushing each other to the absolute limit.
We have another decisive battle, number five.
Emmy Riedel might be one of the best players in the world.
Might be a former World Champion, an international champion, and a regional champion.
But, Katsuno is not going to make it easy for him to make it to that grand finals stage.
He wants his ticket to the chase arena tomorrow and again, and again, and again the shadow
Penko has come in so close for him on these pivotal must win games to keep his ornament
dreams alive and we are locking in for one final battle, one final best of five on day
number two determine who our grand finalist, let's hear it's going to be the Tingaton inter-corsula
to start things off.
And of course, it's gonna be the shadow polytode in the back for Contono,
the Pokemon that he's relied on the entire tournament with his tournament dreams on the line.
He wouldn't want it any other way as he's going for the Gigaton Hammer into the Corsula.
Amy Weedow is already not liking something in this team composition.
And that Gigaton Hammer does so much damage.
One of the strongest Pokemon in this meta for a reason.
and the nightshade is going to land.
There is no Panko in the back,
but you have the safety of the Licky Ton,
Licky Licky, as you say, and Emilito,
scared of the Panko brought the Fortress,
but Fortress is not going to have near
that much play into this back line.
And going for the Bulldoze,
the Bulldoze is not enough to knock out the Corsair.
Here comes a swapping to the Shadow Climbing Tower.
It is met by the Shadow Polly Tone,
but the Shadow Climbing Tower was able
to get mud shot advantages.
So now going for the mud bomb,
it does get the protection from Contano.
Consonant, I love the line calls here, right?
Because he has so much safety in the polytote and the licky-licky.
Shielding either can provide value,
but shielding the more frail polytote is the play he's going for.
Pass the back-to-back, let the ball.
Does Emmy Riedel decided to let both go?
First is going to come through.
Second one is waiting in the wings before the Muff on strong.
Goes out charge that party, but Emmy Riedel doesn't fall for it.
Farms up extra energy, tries to save the Muff on for later.
And the protection comes up for Emmy Riedel,
and it's going to be the switch timers that are coming up really soon,
but you can't escape that if you're a Contoto.
There's only one protection remaining,
but you know the Shadow Fallen Toad
can't take it from this range.
Now, Amy Weedle does have his timer available.
Does he try to go for a swap?
No, the swap comes in from Contoto
to go to the Licky Licky to try to take some of this energy
onto that and then knock out with the body center.
Remember, Amy Weedle does have access to his timer.
Contono, I love this play.
Tries to add a little bit extra energy,
and now this matchup is a little bit weird for this.
Yes, he got chip damage,
but the Licky Licky has a lot of energy now
ahead of the forges and forges not going to shield up the first move expecting the body slam and that's
exactly going to case not shielding the lesser damage move but it is not a deep up licky licky and
and we don't reaching for two disarming voice no shields a shadow ball this is going to do so much
damage mutually to the forges in the shadow ball lands into the forges here but is able to hang on
just barely to get to the disarming force but i don't can't believe it the disarming voice does get
protect shielding and there's no more protect shields remaining from Korn Soto.
Emi Wido still has one left by his Pokemon are very low health. And Korn Sono a
great call knowing the rollout is going to be enough and there's only one final
shield protecting Emi Wido. One final opportunity to keep him in this game. Can
he do it? He's going to try to overrun as much as possible. He knows MJ's crucial.
Goes for it! But the catch is huge! On to the Korn Sola! And this might be what Emi Wido needs.
He's almost like back to back aquatail. Can he do it? Can he full sweep with this shadow Clagsire?
One Pokemon down now the tigaton comes out
He's gonna be able to throw a charge snack whatever he wants to another Pokemon down two down one to go from imiwido
And the widow on the precipice of making history
Can he go back to the grand finals one?
one on for tail and one much shot away.
And Emmy Weedle will secure his spot in Championship Sunday yet again and
he does do it.
It's a fifth and final game and he thinks it's a return to have another chance
to raise that world champion trophy.
It was just a one turn difference between these trainers in game number five.
And Emmy Weedle outpaces and succeeds and
He will be on the loser's side of the bracket.
He is one of the last remaining two trainers remaining at Focama Go Worlds.
And look at the support, look at the crowd.
I think there's a shot of him, his mom, one of his biggest supporters there.
Four years ago in London cheering him on.
Yes, it might have been a small field in the seniors division,
but it was still a stacked division and he's shown in every single year
every single year since then that he could hang with the best of the best.
And that's exactly what he did here in these fast to back five best of five,
going 10 games, going the absolute distance.
And now he has another shot at making history yet again in the grand finals on
Championship Sunday.
He is already one of two trainers that has coveted history in
Pokemon Go Championship series.
Having the trifecta of a Pokemon Go World Championship,
an international championship, and a regional championship.
Can he be the first trainer ever to have two World Championships?
It's gonna be the rematch that maybe you wanted.
It's going to be in E-Wheedle versus Hiromaru.
And of course, the trainer that you don't know as much about
versus maybe the trainer that would be looked at as the top dog,
with the top dog is coming in that loser side of the bracket
and already lost the hero model
earlier on in the winners finals.
And we talked about how Emmi Rideau
coming in his first world championship
as in the senior's division.
Actually, fun fact, he was only four months
into playing PVP when he won that first world champion title
and he was a young player back then.
But speaking of young players,
I got word that someone that really knows hero model very well
is actually a 17 year old player himself
and the young players in their circuit
are on the top of their game in here tomorrow.
Only one set away from becoming the world champion.
But if anyone has grits, if anyone has a termination
and can challenge here tomorrow
on the biggest stage tomorrow
and the chase center, it is Amirido.
And we've seen it before with the trainer coming in
on that loser side, the bracket, resetting that bracket
and becoming the world champion.
He only lost that series by one game.
He can pounce, pack and win.
I see him on stage right now.
He is emotional.
Let's hear from him.
Fareed, take it away.
Four years ago,
Emmy Weedle became our first ever senior world champion.
And tomorrow you will have the opportunity
to become the last ever in this era,
Pokemon Go World Champion.
Maxwell, how are you feeling?
I mean, it's hard to describe.
I mean, so many emotions, I felt slightly disappointed
after the first set.
I feel like I could have played that final game a bit better
after playing what I believe was a decent four games
before that.
So being able to bounce back and make it through to tomorrow,
I mean, it just feels so good.
Contono is a great player, but he also
brought a crazy team, one that you would have never
thought to prepare for.
What was that like?
I mean, it's a crazy team, and he's been playing it for a long time as well, and he's doing so well with it.
So honestly, like, it's difficult. I felt like it was difficult in this meta to run anything other than the hard, solid meta.
But he's just making this crazy team with Politiar with Glisco, and he's made it work so well.
Yeah, an amazing team builder.
I've spoken a little bit about mentality with some players today, but going from that first best of five down to the losers into another best of five.
What was that like for you to process?
Well, not great, because, yeah, I mean, especially on that final game, which I felt like was the game I misplayed the most, that one being the decisive game, doesn't feel the best, but you know, I feel like I did a good job of resetting my mental and locking in for the final set.
Now you're going to get a rematch tomorrow against Hiromaru. You have an opportunity to play against him, learn some lessons.
What's it like for you now, thinking and approaching that grand final?
The alignment wasn't quite in my favour when I played him in the winners' finals, but I think if I play like I did against him the first time, then I can make it close at least.
Maxwell, I can see your friends and family in the audience watching and cheering for you.
Do you want to give them one last shout out?
Of course, shout out to my mom, she's here, to my dad,
to all of Team Pizza, to every single person
who has supported me this weekend,
the build up to this weekend.
Just thank you so much, it means so much, like, seriously.
Congratulations Maxwell, best of luck for tomorrow
in Championship Sunday,
but we've got a little surprise for you coming right up,
so don't go anywhere.
Thank you for the wonderful interview for Reed,
and you can see a very humble trainer as well.
He's excited.
He knows that getting here wasn't a solo task.
Thank you so many players, his family members,
and his mom being in.
I think she's actually at every tournament I've seen him in,
supporting him in the crowds,
and what a proud son that he must be to her
throughout the years.
And we got special reveal butters.
Yeah, but before that, hang tight.
Grab your popcorn.
We'll be right back with a special reveal.
And before then, let's go for some primary Pokemon.
All right.
All right, and we got a special guest here,
our referee, Tomahawk.
I'm back.
He is back.
You're tough, man.
He's quick.
Yeah, you're faster than a lot of these.
You're faster than 9-0, charging up to those weather balls.
That's rough.
Yeah, of course.
But those are just joining us now, too, if you're here.
For a little, maybe a special review.
Let's take a look at the bracket on how we got to this point
to get to that championship Sunday.
As you can see on that looser side as well.
I mean, we don't fighting in that looser's
finals after dropping from that winner's top.
But look at Contano as well.
Going down at some point in the winter side,
but still battling through some of the best players.
You'd be David, Marshall Galday,
almost beating Enlid Guido and so many of our other trainers
throughout this day number two,
fighting for their spots in a farther and farther placement
in the World Championships.
But it can only come down to two.
Have a look at the winner's bracket and how we got there.
It's crazy because we've watched so many of these players
month in, month out, both across Europe,
North America and the rest of the world but we don't get an opportunity to see
some of the Japanese players and we've had two brilliant Japanese performances
today. Hiroomaru leading the pack with that brilliant victory over Emi Wido on
the winner's side of the bracket putting his name into the grand finals
tomorrow on Championship Sunday. And I think Emi Wido spoke elegantly about
how it is difficult to be able to team build the way that we saw some of these
Japanese trainers team build especially Contonal right even though he was
eliminated. He got third place with one of the most unique teams that I've ever seen.
That might have been the spiciest team to get as far as it has in Pokemon Go. World championship
history.
Shiny Pangora. Absolutely love to see that. And Glyscore as well. Something that we've
seen Glyga perform well before, but never at Glyscore. Definitely not this level of
success.
Oh, I was a big Shadow Glyscore fan. Doubter. Not just this year, but like maybe my whole
lifetime, right? But he has changed my mind. Not that one. He's made it look so good.
30 years of Pokemon, 30 years of Doubt in the Shadow of Vice Scorer, not anymore.
And it's also worth mentioning actually that Emmy Weedle obviously our first ever world champion.
He got that senior title just before Dancing Rope technically.
But next year we're going to have a 3v3 format.
So in terms of this era, in terms of 1v1, Emmy Weedle does have an opportunity to become the first and the last world champion.
How about him possibly stamping himself in the history books as that historic period for
Pokemon Go World Championship does end and another one begins to be able to start it
off as the first technically the first ever Pokemon Go Champion to become the first ever
two time Pokemon Go World Champion.
We're celebrating 30 years of history in Pokemon, 10 years in Pokemon Go and will we be celebrating
the unique history of Imi Wido tomorrow.
all of that will be revealed on Championship Sunday. In the meantime, we've got a very
exciting reveal for you right now. Let's go through the attack update that we are going
to get after this season ends. It's Twilight Trails!
Oh, a little spooky in this theme right here. I'm very excited to see what we got in store
in Twilight Trails. We'll be starting in early September, September 8th, to be exact, on
Tuesday, 1PM Pacific GMT minus 7.
You did a conversion of anywhere else in the world.
And this is one of the most fun moments for you trainers
that enjoy the go battle league because all of these changes
will be implemented next season.
And the first one there is the air cutter.
The power decreased from 45.
Oh wait, sorry, no, 45 to 60.
The 60 energy increased as well.
Wow.
Bulldoze also getting an energy and power increase.
So these are pacing nerves.
body slam is going back all the way up to 65 power but the energy cost increases. That's not
something we expected to see. Sand Toon going up to 55 power so many nerfs to the pacing of all
of these attacks. Brian, Brian with the 100 power now but also the energy cost has increased.
Bubblebeam going up in power but the energy cost has increased. Miracle as well but look the power
went up but it's the first one that the energy cost decreased. There we go. High horsepower as well.
energy cost decreased that was already a pretty strong attack now it's going to be very efficient
charred beam lantern lovers watch out lantern could be back oh please kick energy cost decreased
i'd love to see a blaze can we saw one in vgc this weekend iron head up as well
draining kiss as well going up in 20 damage as well as a guaranteed chance to raise your defense
by a stage of master buff there poison fang nido queen could be back lunge also going up in power
bug types getting above that and bite it's gonna drop in power it's gonna
half but the energy generation is increasing that is massive similar to
dragon breath right where it's doing less damage but now it's generating more
energy we got takedown with the more power but the energy generation
increased we got scratched as well with a little bit less power but you get
some more energy out of that in a big one right here moon glass goes down in
power but you can reach it faster now shadow ball nerf
Oh, wow.
There was an infestation, but a little weaker.
Dark Pulse is going to get a buff.
Manderbuzz might be a big beneficiary of that.
Psycho boost.
Look at that.
That's quite a big change.
Energy cost decreases in gyms and raid battles.
It's obviously already at 35 for Pokemon Go.
Rage fist.
Look at that.
It's a nerf for rage fist.
Let's go.
Magnet Bomb is lower energy now.
Also, the double iron bash has more power.
And Shadow Force right here.
A tier 2 special.
Is that a clutch-wrenching shot?
My god, what is this?
Low kick is going up in power. Annihilate lovers, Simois.
I am absolutely loving to see that attack availability now.
Look at this, Wolfie with a double buff there, getting infestation and a lunge.
Illuminese getting infestation as well. Brutal swing on the RBAC as well as the Aerodactyl.
A lot of these covers can come in handy, especially in some of these limited meta's, but also people that want to run some spice.
Yeah, some bug type buffs there now. Look at this brutal swing distribution.
So many Pokemon getting access to that very, very cheap dark type attack.
Alolan Muck, Greninja, Greninja, getting foul play.
That's an interesting update.
That's a double buff too with the launch from earlier.
Yes, a lot more flexibility.
We've seen Eredos be meta in past competitions.
We got Darkrai with the foul play as well.
So some other leagues getting some love.
We do have a lot more dark types.
the foul play even the victory bell is getting the fast attack sucker punch say goodbye right there
leader punch as well I think that's great for raids let's not forget graphite with the foul play
you're the first actristic user you might be the first graphite user as well to a partner
first and last or dino with that new charge beam and right you getting access to fault tackle
I think that's the first pokemon to get access to that charge attack Alolan right you going to get
it as well. We've seen how strong it can be in limited metas as well that Alolan
right you can be a force and now we have grim star with the ability to learn
the charge attack training kiss as well aggro and getting brick break that's
interesting. One of my favorite Pokemon aggro there but Zera aura getting
dynamic. That mythical Pokemon was recently available and deoxys defense
form is getting low kick. Okay that is a huge change because low kicks also have been buffed.
The cycle boost buff early is massive too, de-assipate, might be back, my chance for you!
Thank you! Low kick for Kim Gambit, that's great news!
Galee Secretsord! That is such a strong charge attack here.
Leafblade Secretsord will be really fast-pacing there. Houndoom Incinerate, and it gets a mega,
remember. A lot of these Pokemon get mega, so if you're a mega Pokemon, enjoy it. Pay attention to
these. And Miss Mag is also getting that mystical fire. We got the crow back with Gust. We've seen
gold that beat some fridge better. Maybe crow back to make some name for himself. Flamigo.
This is very interesting. This potentially gives this Pokemon a chance to be good. It got packed now.
That's interesting. Chandelure, ghost and fire type Pokemon with that.
Astonished. We've seen so much. Galarian course of the Khan. Chandelure used that to good success.
And Illumisek with another buff. We saw it with infestation earlier. Shadowball now as well.
and koffa gregas with energy ball we've seen nine towns use energy ball so much that is a massive
grass type coverage for that ghost type pokemon houndoom also with trailblaze lots of houndoom buffs
and scarmory back you got drill run some people hate it bomb birdie gets the drill run as well
and luigi against the earth power that is huge for luigi yes high horsepower with the recently buffed
one, two, the mill tank for some great covers into those steel types, and Nidol King coming
in with Avalanche.
I'm a Nidol King Caloridon, this has so many buffs throughout the years, I'll wait and
see until someone makes-
I don't think he's gonna be able to use it anyway.
The Alolan buff now has Ice Punch, so it has gone into Charge Attack buff.
You can get to Energy so quickly with that Snarl in getting to that fast Brutal Swing.
Scratch get a buff.
Yes, he's got a buff.
Scratch get a buff.
The future signature Pokemon of two or butters at the next regional.
Oh, Doc Strictsity, let's go!
Oh, Doc Strictsity's in the high war.
No Z-Board, Doc Strictsity will now be able to learn the charge attack swift.
Thank you, I needed something.
An ad form gets in as well, we don't want it to have the form to miss out.
History and Zerowak also getting swift.
Arbok with another, finally getting wrapped.
That's got a defense drop and it had an attack buff recently as well.
So, Arbok with two updates there.
Snorlax, Zyway, that is a big update! Snorlax could be back.
That's one of my favorite open great league Pokemon ever now suddenly it has a viable fast attack
It used to have lick it's not as strong anymore. Now. It's got the side wave
Let's go and it's got the super power for coverage into opposing normal types
So it could be a normal type that a lot of people are defaulting to over stuff like licky licky
I can't remember all of the top of my head, but body slam got an energy nerf
So that could be really impactful because we've seen how much body slam is being used.
Licky, Licky, Nerve is quite a key one and Shadowfall got also got that damage decrease.
So that is a massive hit to a lot of the meta that we've seen.
Tinkton also bulldozed Nerve there with the energy increase so it loses its cheap beta tank.
Yeah, has to be the most impactful in terms of the meta.
Going into day number two, guess which Pokemon was number one in usage?
Licky, Licky by a mile and I don't think that's going to be the case starting next season.
All right, day number one, we revealed the LASC meta.
Day number two, we revealed the GBL meta in the moosa update.
Who knows what's happening on day number three,
but you gotta tune in to find out to Championship Sunday,
9 a.m. Pacific, 12 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. UTC,
and through the Conversion or everything else,
you do not wanna miss out on the grand finals
of all the Pokemon games.
It's gonna be an amazing Championship Sunday.
We've got Hiromaru up against Emmy Weedle.
That will be a rematch for these players,
and they will be preparing all night because this is the 10th anniversary of Pokemon Go,
the 30th anniversary of Pokemon. We're going to be in a massive arena, the Chase Center,
so this will be one that the world is watching and it'll mean everything to these players.
And remember we're on slash Pokemon Go right now, but tomorrow we're going to be on the main
Pokemon channel. Make sure to hashtag PokemonXB in Pokemon Worlds because we want to hear from you.
Who will be our world champion?
You mentioned it.
We're celebrating all of the historic moments of Pokemon
and Pokemon Go in the biggest world championship ever.
Whoever wins this Pokemon Go world will be a legend.
We hope to see you there.
That's land.
It's going to be a lot of entertainment,
but there's something for you as well at home.
Or if you're in the arena, tune in to get these exclusive Twitch
drops.
you get the exclusive Tinketon that's
feels like used in his world champion run last year
with a special world championship background
in Elite Charcium and so much more
to help you prepare for the new season.
History is in the making.
We have Emmi Rideau who could become
the first ever repeat champion world champion in Pokemon Go
or we get tomorrow going to be the first ever world champion
for Japan and also the first world champion
to ever win it in their first ever world champion run since
London 2022 when dancing Robin and Miro won it in their first
ever worlds. So much for you to take full advantage of. We've
got pass codes for all of these different items across our
games. Pokemon Go here are your champions drops. Use that code
enjoy worlds 26 but there's more. We've also got the trading
card game drops available in Pokemon worlds especially on
Championship Sunday is about celebrating all of the titles.
So make sure to take advantage of this opportunity
to get all of these awesome items in multiple games.
Of course, TCG, there are many things
you can take advantage of.
VGC, you just saw it.
Pokemon Go probably has the best Twitch drops
that it has ever had with that IV-specific Tinketon,
the Elite Charge GM.
Make sure to take advantage of it before it's too late.
It's been a pretty crazy past two days.
We have seen players from all over the world gather and perform at the very highest level.
We've had upsets, we've had tears, but we've also had so much joy, so much celebration.
And we've had the best performances that we have seen in a long time.
The last showcase of this meta before we get that brand new meta that we just went through.
And we're going to have to go backstage and go through it again, because that was crazy.
That sure was.
Thank you all for tuning in to day number two.
We have one final day left for the World Championships of 2026,
the 30th anniversary of Pokemon.
It doesn't get better than this.
See you all tomorrow in the Chase Center.
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